Elizabeth J Allan

Policy Discourses, Gender, and Education

Constructing Women's Status

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Describes policy discourse analysis as a framework for considering how those involved in policy-making efforts may make use of discourses that inadvertently undermine the intended effect of policies they set forth. This book illustrates the methods of policy discourse analysis by describing their use in a study of 21 women's commission reports.

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Despite over thirty years of activism and legislation to eliminate discrimination, parity has yet to be achieved for women in academe. Allan's findings reveal how dominant discourses of femininity, access, professionalism, race, and sexuality contribute to constructing women's status in complex and at times, contradictory ways.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780415381680
• ISBN-10: 0415381681
• Artikelnr.: 21258492

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth J. Allan is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Higher Education at the University of Maine.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Discourse, Power, and Knowledge: The Making of Subject
Positions 3. Unthinking Policy: Why Policy Discourse Analysis? 4. Shaping
Policy Discourse Analysis: A Hybrid Methodology 5. Doing Policy Discourse
Analysis: An Illustration 6. University Women's Commissions and Women's
Status: An Introduction 7. The Outsider: Policy Discourse Analysis and
Women's Access to Higher Education 8. The Vulnerable Outsider: Policy
Discourse Analysis and Women's Safety on Campus 9. Achieving Women: Shaping
the Professional Subject 10. Discourse and Identity Differences:
Constructing Women's Status 11. Unthinking and Re/Thinking: Insights from
Policy Discourses of University Women's Commissions 12. Policy Discourse
Analysis: Limits and Possibilities. Appendix A: University Women's
Commission Official Reports used as Primary Data Sources. Appendix B:
Institutional Contexts of University Women's Commissions. Appendix C:
Summary of Codes and Subcodes of Policy Discourse Analysis Study of
University Women's Commission Reports