This book contains 14 essays exploring how the theory of women's psychology, development, and ways of knowing has developed during the past decade. The following essays are included: "The Beginning ...of the Story: Collaboration and Separation" (Nancy Rule Goldberger); "Looking Backward, Looking Forward" (Nancy Rule Goldberger); "Reconfiguring Teaching and Knowing in the College Classroom" (Ann Stanton); "Women's Ways of 'Knowing' Law: Feminist Legal Epistemology, Pedagogy, and Jurisprudence" (Carrie Menkel-Meadow); "Embodying Knowledge, Knowing Desire: Authority and Split Subjectivities in Girls' Epistemological Development" (Elizabeth Debold, Deborah Tolman, Lyn Mikel Brown); "Connected Knowing in Constructive Psychotherapy" (Michael J. Mahoney); "Women's Ways of Knowing in Women's Studies, Feminist Pedagogies, and Feminist Theory" (Frances A Maher, Mary Kay Tetreault); "Unknown Women and Unknowing Research: Consequences of Color and Class in Feminist Psychology" (Vanessa M. Bing, Pamela Trotman Reid); "Connected and Separate Knowing: Toward a Marriage of Two Minds" (Blythe McVicker Clinchy); "Reason's 'Femininity': A Case for Connected Knowing" (Sara Ruddick); "Voices in Dialogue: Collaborative Ways of Knowing" (Jill Mattuck Tarule); "Speech Is Silver, Silence Is Gold: The Asymmetrical Intersubjectivity of Communicative Action" (Patrocinio P. Schweickart); "Cultural Imperatives and Diversity in Ways of Knowing" (Nancy Rule Goldberger); "Strategic Suspensions: Feminists of Color Theorize the Production of Knowledge" (Aida Hurtado); "Public Homeplaces: Nurturing the Development of People, Families, and Communities" (Mary Field Belenky); and "Gendered Ways of Knowing and the 'Epistemological Crisis' of the West" (Sandra Harding). Most essays include substantial bibliographies. (MN)
This collection of papers examines the issue of minority and female deans in colleges of education, offering the current thinking by a group of minority and female deans of education. Part 1, ..."Changing Leadership: Tensions within Academic and Social Roles," presents the first four chapters: (1) "Surviving the Middle Passage: The Absent Legacy of African American Women Education Deans?" (Beverly Lindsay); (2) "The Contemporary Challenge: Family and Work Issues for Women in Higher Education" (Nancy Hensel); (3) "Recharting the Paths of Women and Minority Leaders: A Journey of Consequence" (Jane Stallings); and (4) "Deaning at a Historically Black Institution: Challenges, Opportunities, and Promise" (Portia H. Shields). Part 2, "Changing Schools: Issues of Power, Conflict, Race, and Gender," offers the last five chapters: (5) "A Profession at Risk: Changing the Image and Substance of Teacher Education" (Fannie Wiley Preston); (6) "Site-Based Management and Teacher Empowerment in Educational Reform: Can the Power be Shifted?" (Marilyn J. Haring); (7) "Academics and Cultural Excellence for African American Students: Imperatives for Public Education" (Hugh J. Scott); (8) "Developing a Multicultural Focus in Teacher Education: One Department's Story" (Barbara J. Shade); and (9) "Restructuring American Schools: A Perspective on Testing and Assessment" (Trevor E. Sewell and Constance V. Hines). (All papers contain references.) (SM)
