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Kahn, Arnold – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1984
Analyzes the male response to anticipated loss of power as women continue to demand equality and equal power. Describes the scope of male power, and analyzes the importance of power to men in terms of the male sex-role stereotype. Hypothesizes some likely male responses to a loss of power. (BH)
Descriptors: Feminism, Males, Personal Autonomy, Power Structure
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Sheldon, Amy – Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 1990
Examines five issues related to females as mentors in higher education: self-disclosure and personal boundaries, nurturing, female authority, conflict and competition, and hierarchy. Considers these issues central to understanding the difficulties women have in the mentoring process. (SK)
Descriptors: Competition, Females, Feminism, Helping Relationship
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England, Paula – American Sociologist, 1989
Provides a feminist critique of rational-choice theory and the interdisciplinary feminist theories of sociology. Applies the separative model of self to four assumptions of the neoclassical economics version of rational-choice theory. Uses research on marital power to illustrate how removing distorting assumptions can help illuminate sociological…
Descriptors: Economics, Feminism, Interdisciplinary Approach, Marriage
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Luttrell, Wendy – Sociology of Education, 1989
Analyzes the way black and white working-class women define and claim knowledge, challenging feminist analyses that have identified a single or universal mode of knowing for women. Contends that women speak to complex gender, racial, and class relations of power that shape how they think about learning and knowing. (Author/SLM)
Descriptors: Females, Feminism, Learning, Learning Processes
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Brookes, Anne-Louise; Kelly, Ursula A. – Journal of Education, 1989
Uses a letter format to create a dialogue regarding the practice of a critical pedagogy in the college classroom. Asserts the importance of acknowledging different dialogical spaces occupied by men and women resulting from the power differential; fundamental differences in the way they each perceive themselves; and the different social treatment…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Environment
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Taylor, Maye – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 1994
Addresses the need to reflect on how the dynamics of gender and power can be articulated together and adversely affect counseling and supervision relationships. Suggests incorporating a social analysis into supervision to help counselors clarify the political nature of some therapeutic issues, thus addressing gender stereotypes. Supports a…
Descriptors: Counseling, Females, Feminism, Gender Issues
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Pope, Barbara Corrado – NWSA Journal: A Publication of the National Women's Studies Association, 1993
Reviews eight European histories by Dorothy O. Helly, Ed., and Susan M. Reverby, Ed. (1992); Joy Wiltenburg (1992); Margaret L. King (1991); Joan DeJean (1991); Jacques Gelis (1991); Barbara Duden (1991); Jane Lewis (1991); and Sheila Rowbotham (1989). This sampling shows women's historians use an interdisciplinary approach and consistently deal…
Descriptors: Books, European History, Females, Feminism
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Maher, Frances A. – Teachers College Record, 1999
Explores the relationship between feminist pedagogical theory and progressive education related to classroom gender relations and construction of female teacher authority, examining contemporary applications of progressive educational theory to gender issues, addressing teacher authority (noting Dewey's writings on women), and suggesting how…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Feminism, Higher Education
Murphy, Kathleen V. – 1992
A college composition instructor who approached her course from a feminist perspective found it difficult to overcome students' arguments and frustration until she obtained the help of an ethnographer. The ethnographer got involved with the instructor's evening classes on a regional campus for an entire semester. It was discovered that male and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Ethnography, Females, Feminism
Melenyzer, Beverly J. – 1991
This paper reviews the dominant theoretical framework espoused by feminist writers in order to gain a deeper understanding of the distinction between feminist groups on the question of empowerment within the higher education establishment. Feminists are described as falling into three groups--liberal feminists, radical feminists and social…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Feminism, Higher Education, Instruction
Brunner, Diane – 1984
An examination of the film, "Educating Rita," explores the effects of power respective to particular gender categories and suggests ways that the film becomes a case study in gender and education. The film is about a woman, Rita, who wants the ability to have choices in her life, pursues an education as the key to providing choices, and…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Educational Opportunities, Females, Feminism
MacNaughton, Glenda – AECA Resource Book Series, 1995
"New wave" gender theorists (those who ascribe to feminist post-structuralist theory) caution that nonsexist work with young children is likely to be unsuccessful in the long term because theories of gender and the approach to gender in the curriculum have, until now, ignored one key issue: the question of power. This booklet explores…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Feminism, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues
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Zimmerman, Miriam L. – CUPA Journal, 1993
This article offers six principles of feminist thinking: (1) the power of naming; (2) invisibility of women's work; (3) circular progress; (4) what constitutes knowledge and knowing; (5) feminist values of equality, inclusion, and diffusion of power; and (6) the personal as political. The principles are applied to human resource management in…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Change Strategies, College Administration, Educational Change
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Kimmel, Michael S. – Society, 1993
Argues that ways in which the experience of manhood has structured the course and meanings of American men's activities must be examined. Pioneering work of feminist scholars has made us aware of the centrality of gender in shaping social life. It is now necessary to extend these studies to men. (SLD)
Descriptors: Experience, Females, Feminism, Intellectual Disciplines
Mitten, Denise – 1996
Traditional ethics are founded on unquestioned principles that transcend the limitations of a particular person. The result is that behavior is judged on how well people follow rules, not on how well they treat one another. This essay contends that applying this patriarchal approach to teaching situations ignores the needs of students in…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Educational Philosophy, Ethics, Experiential Learning
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