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Sexism in higher education. by Richardson, Betty,1935-(CARDINAL)170610;

Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Women college teachers.; Sex discrimination in education.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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How to think like a woman : four women philosophers who taught me how to love the life of the mind / by Penaluna, Regan,author.(CARDINAL)860447;

"An exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential seventeenth- and eighteenth-century feminist philosophers Mary Astell, Damaris Masham, Catharine Cockburn, and Mary Wollstonecraft, and a searing look at the author's experience of patriarchy and sexism in academia. Growing up in small-town Iowa, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions. In college she fell in love with philosophy and chose to pursue it as an academician, the first step, she believed, to living a life of the mind. What Penaluna didn't realize was that the Western philosophical canon taught in American universities, as well as the culture surrounding it, would grind her down through its misogyny, its harassment, and its devaluation of women and their intellect. Where were the women philosophers? One day, in an obscure monograph, Penaluna came across Damaris Cudworth Masham's name. A contemporary of John Locke, Masham wrote about knowledge, God, and the condition of women. Masham's work led Penaluna to other remarkable women philosophers of the era: Mary Astell, who moved to London at twenty-one and made a living writing philosophy; Catharine Cockburn, a philosopher, novelist, and playwright; and the better-known Mary Wollstonecraft, who wrote extensively in defense of women's minds. Together, these women rekindled Penaluna's love of philosophy and awakened her feminist consciousness. In How to Think Like a Woman, Penaluna blends memoir, biography, and criticism to tell these women's stories, weaving throughout an alternative history of philosophy as well as her own search for love and truth. Funny, honest, and wickedly intelligent, this is a moving meditation on what philosophy could look like if women were treated equally"--Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-296).

Subjects: Biographies.; Women philosophers.; Sexism in higher education.;

Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 12

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Black women, ivory tower : revealing the lies of White supremacy in American education / by Harris, Jasmine L.,author.(CARDINAL)883762;

Includes bibliographical references.A meager inheritance -- The power of a story -- The disappearance of Black teachers -- Racing -- The performance of belonging -- Body work -- Class matters -- Benediction."From a rising voice in the study of Black Lives in the US comes a book about racism in higher education, with a focus on the experience of Black women and girls in predominately white colleges and universities. Black Women, Ivory Tower blends the author's own experiences and family history with socio-historical analysis and research, to analyze the ways that systemic racism has denied Black women an equitable education and chart a course for a more equitable future"--

Subjects: Racism in higher education; Sexism in higher education; African American women in higher education.; African American women;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4

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Yale needs women : how the first group of girls rewrote the rules of an Ivy League giant / by Perkins, Anne Gardiner,author.(CARDINAL)805837;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-354) and index.268 years of men -- Superwomen -- A thousand male leaders -- Consciousness -- Sex-blind -- Margaret asks for the Mike -- The sisterhood -- Breaking the rules -- The opposition -- Reinforcements -- Tanks versus BB guns -- Mountain moving day."Yale University, along with the rest of the Ivy League, kept its gates closed to women until the class of 1969. The reason for letting them in? As an incentive for men to attend. Yale Needs Women is the story of why the most elite schools in the nation refused women for so long, and what the first women to enter those halls faced when they stepped onto campus"--

Subjects: Yale University; Women in higher education.; Sexism in higher education.; Women college students;

Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8

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The exceptions [large print] : Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science / by Zernike, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)501756;

"In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against women on its faculty, forcing institutions across the country to confront a problem they had long ignored: the need for more women at the top levels of science. Written by the journalist who broke the story for The Boston Globe, The Exceptions is the untold story of how sixteen highly accomplished women on the MIT faculty came together to do the work that triggered the historic admission. The Exceptions centers on the life of Nancy Hopkins, a reluctant feminist who became the leader of the sixteen and a hero to two generations of women in science. Hired to prestigious universities at the dawn of affirmative action efforts in the 1970s, Dr. Hopkins and her peers embarked on their careers believing that discrimination against women was a thing of the past -- that science was, at last, a pure meritocracy. For years they explained away the discrimination they experienced as the exception, not the rule. Only when these few women came together after decades of underpayment and the denial of credit, advancement, and equal resources to do their work did they recognize the relentless pattern: women were often marginalized and minimized, especially as they grew older. Meanwhile, men of similar or lesser ability had their career paths paved and widened."--

Subjects: Large print books.; Biographies.; Hopkins, Nancy (Nancy H.); Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sex discrimination in higher education; Sexism in science; Sexism in higher education; Women college teachers; Women scientists; Sex discrimination in science; Sex discrimination against women; Sex discrimination in employment;

Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11

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The exceptions : Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science / by Zernike, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)501756;

Includes bibliographical references (page 371-392) and index.An epiphany on Divinity Avenue -- The choice -- An immodest proposal -- At the feet of Harvard's great men -- Bungtown road -- "Women, please apply" -- The vow -- "We should distance all competitors" -- Our Millie -- The best home for a feminist -- Liberated lifestyles -- Kendall square -- "This slow and gentle robbery" -- "Fodder" -- Fun in middle age -- Three hundred square feet -- MIT Inc. -- Sixteen tenured women -- X and Y -- All for one or one for all -- "The greater part of the balance -- Epilogue -- The sixteen.In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against its most senior female scientists. It was a seismic cultural event - one that forced institutions across the nation to reckon with the bias faced by girls and women in STEM. This is the story of the women on MIT's faculty who started it all, centered on the life and career of their unlikely leader: Nancy Hopkins, a noted molecular geneticist and cancer researcher and protégée of James Watson, the codiscoverer of the structure of DNA.--

Subjects: Biographies.; Hopkins, Nancy (Nancy H.); Massachusetts Institute of Technology.; Sex discrimination in science; Women scientists; Women; Women college teachers; Sexism in education; Women in science; Women.; Womyn.;

Available copies: 32 / Total copies: 37

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The exceptions [sound recording] : Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science / by Zernike, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)501756; Mazur, Kathe,narrator.(CARDINAL)543054;

Read by Kathe Mazur.From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who broke the story, the inspiring account of the sixteen female scientists who forced MIT to publicly admit it had been discriminating against its female faculty for years, sparking a nationwide reckoning with the pervasive sexism in science.

Subjects: Audiobooks.; Biographies.; Hopkins, Nancy (Nancy H.); Massachusetts Institute of Technology.; Sex discrimination in employment; Sex discrimination in science; Women in science; Women scientists; Sexism in education; Women; Women college teachers;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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Failing at fairness : how America's schools cheat girls / by Sadker, Myra Pollack.(CARDINAL)145895; Sadker, David Miller,1942-(CARDINAL)145870;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Hidden lessons -- Through the back door: the history of women's education -- Missing in interaction -- The self-esteem slide -- High school: in search of herself -- Test dive -- Higher education: colder by degrees -- The miseducation of boys -- Different voices, different schools -- The edge of change.

Subjects: Sex discrimination in education; Sexism in education; Women; Women.; Womyn.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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Failing at fairness : how America's schools cheat girls / by Sadker, Myra Pollack.(CARDINAL)145895; Sadker, David Miller,1942-(CARDINAL)145870;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-336) and index.Hidden lessons -- Through the back door: the history of women's education -- Missing in interaction -- The self-esteem slide -- High school: in search of herself -- Test dive -- Higher education: colder by degrees -- The miseducation of boys -- Different voices, different schools -- The edge of change.Failing at Fairness is a powerful indictment of sexism in America's classrooms. The findings from twenty years of research by two of America's most distinguished social scientists show that gender bias in our schools makes it impossible for girls to receive an education equal to boys'. Girls are systematically denied opportunities in areas where boys are encouraged to excel, often by well-meaning teachers who are unaware that they are transmitting sexist values. Girls are taught to speak quietly, to defer to boys, to avoid math and science, and to value neatness over innovation, appearance over intelligence. In the early grades girls, brimming with intelligence and potential, routinely outperform boys on achievement tests, but by the time they graduate from high school they lag far behind boys - a process of degeneration that continues into adulthood. By the time girls enter the working world, the damage has been done. Our daughters, tomorrow's women, learn that to be female is to be passive and deferential: We have, effectively, made girls second-class citizens in a world whose survival will depend on their contributions. The implications are devastating: If the cure for cancer is incubating in the mind of one of our daughters, we may never find it. Professors Myra and David Sadker have produced a comprehensive, compelling, and essential resource.

Subjects: Sex discrimination in education; Sexism in education; Women; Women.; Womyn.;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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Unrooted : botany, motherhood, and the fight to save an old science / by Zimmerman, Erin,author.aut.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254) and index.Library of the dead -- Learning to look -- Tiny worlds -- Intrepid enough -- Learning to see -- Uncertainty, in science and life -- Adaptation -- The lady vanishes -- The view of life -- Botanist at large.Growing up in rural Ontario, Erin Zimmerman became fascinated with plants - an obsession that led to a life in academia as a professional botanist. But as her career choices narrowed in the face of failing institutions and subtle, but ubiquitous, sexism, Zimmerman began to doubt herself. Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science is a scientist's memoir, a glimpse into the ordinary life of someone in a fascinating field. This is a memoir about plants, about looking at the world with wonder, and about what it means to be a woman in academia - an environment that pushes out mothers and those with any outside responsibilities. Zimmerman delves into her experiences as a new mom, her decision to leave her position in post-graduate research, and how she found a new way to stay in the field she loves. She also explores botany as a "dying science" worth fighting for. While still an undergrad, Zimmerman's university started the process of closing the Botany Department, a sign of waning funding for her beloved science. Still, she argues for its continuation, not only because we have at least 100,000 plant species yet to be discovered, but because an understanding of botany is crucial in the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss. Zimmerman is also a botanical illustrator and will provide 8 original illustrations for the book.

Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Zimmerman, Erin.; Zimmerman, Erin (Evolutionary biologist); Women botanists; Women in higher education.; Botany.; Motherhood.; Plants.; Women botanists.; Women botanists;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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