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Academic Pathfinders Knowledge Creation and Feminist Scholarship
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Patricia J. Gumport
ISBN: 0-313-32096-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32096-5
224 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/2002
List Price: $102.95 (UK Sterling Price: £71.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: From the 1960s to the 1980s, a range of academic possibilities for women developed, as their career histories and intellectual biographies reveal. Some women sought to generate a new knowledge specialty in their disciplines, often explicitly defying admonishments that the subject matter was an oxymoron. Others pursued academic paths that disregarded these new opportunities and developments. Together their accounts portray how feminist scholarship emerged and was facilitated by historically specific conditions: a critical mass of like-minded women, a national political movement, an abundance of financial support for doctoral candidates, a tolerance from established faculty for students to pursue the margins of disciplinary scholarship, and an organizational capacity to add new academic categories for courses, programs, academic positions, and extra-departmental groups. That historical era has since been supplanted by feminist infighting and backlash, as well as more cost-conscious academic management practices, which have altered the academic landscape for knowledge creation.

Analyzing the accounts of academic women during this era yields a conceptual framework for understanding how new knowledge is created on multiple levels—through personal reflection on life experiences, disciplinary legacies, local organizational contexts, and wider societal expectations.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
    The Dynamic Nature of Academic Knowledge
    Academic Feminism: Actecedents, Initiatives, and Unresolved Issues
    Investigating Knowledge Creation
    The Pathfinders' Breakthroughs
    Knowledge Creation in the Disciplines: History, Sociology, and Philosophy
    Alternative Academic Pursuits: The Pathtakers and Forerunners
    Changing Conditions for Knowledge Creation
    Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: PATRICIA J. GUMPORT is Associate Professor of Education, Stanford University.
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