SOCI 2P51 Lecture 9: Higher Education.docx
3 Jun 2015
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Chilly climate also in our universities, women not encouraged to pursue higher education, not a very welcoming environment: women"s studies, institutional support for feminism (1970"s, 1971 1st formal programme in women"s studies in the university of british columbia, promise of a challenge to masculinist regime of academy, supposed to do academia differently, >40 institutions in canada, not monolithic challenges re. Race, sexuality, class etc. (focuses on how woman"s positions in societies connect with these things: now woman"s and gender studies or gender studies, feminist pedagogy emerged from dissatisfaction with masculinist schools/universities, fp make gender visible (relations, oppression), value experience, and reconstruct power in classrooms, effect change, institutional relations of power make change difficult, rise of mcuniversity, feminist concern connection to market ws not seen this way, these decisions that universities are making is focused on money, universities never catered to the labor market like they do now money is a huge factor.
