Keith,
sigh. Your reference to a single 30-year old feminist text points to a key problem in your argument – the feminine/masculine binary that assumes sex-based (natural, inherent) differences in women/men. The idea of feminized disciplines has moved from the outdated idea that all we need to do to ‘fix’ power imbalances based on gender is to ‘add more women’, to the idea that disciplines dominated (at least in number) by women are necessarily ‘softer’ – note the qualifier that points to the always superior masculine other – and therefore more easily dismissed.
teena
> The first useful article I found in a Google search for “the feminization
> of universities” was:
>
> Du Nann Winter, Deborah (1991) The Feminization of Academia (
> http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1235&context=podimproveacad
> )
>
> Interesting to me, this article was published almost at the start of my
> full-time academic career, 30 years ago. After nearly 30 years, the
> project, in my academic world, has achieved its desired outcomes.
>
> It is a well written well constructed, well argued account of what is
> required for universities to be feminized. That is, the author presumed
> this purpose is worthy and they presumed the outcomes will be beneficial to
> all concerned. I recommend the article.
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