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Women in Science – and Elsewhere

In: The ‘Woman Question’ and Higher Education

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  • Virginia Valian

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This uniquely interdisciplinary study offers a provocative, contemporary look at the ‘Woman Question’ in relation to higher education at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Leading feminist scholars from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines — including history, philosophy, education, psychology, sociology, and economics — evaluate the role of biology, discrimination, and choice in rationalizing women’s exclusion from fully participating in the process of knowledge production, as well as examining institutional impediments. Contextualizing arguments against women’s inclusion and including contemporary perspectives on gender, this book offers a rich, multi-layered examination and critical insights into understanding the near universal difficulties that women encounter as they seek to participate fully in the process of knowledge production.

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  • Virginia Valian, 2008. "Women in Science – and Elsewhere," Chapters, in: Ann Mari May (ed.), The ‘Woman Question’ and Higher Education, chapter 5, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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