Imagining women in the curriculum
The Transgressive Impossibility of Women's Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4096740 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kelly Coate (0000-0002-8801-8138, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 407-421 |
| Publication date | 2006-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03075070600800475 |
| OpenAlex | W2003282086 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 20 |
To study the curriculum, as Bernstein argues, is to begin to understand what it is possible to think and who can think it. This powerful notion will underpin an exploration of the impossibility of women's studies courses in the context of the UK higher education system. Whereas women's studies has become a recognized subject area in other countries such as the USA, it has struggled for legitimacy in the UK since it began to be developed in feminist courses, largely within sociology degrees, from the 1970s. Based on archival research and interviews with academics and students in several case study universities, this article will examine how the boundaries around legitimate academic knowledge are maintained when certain curricular innovations are proposed. The social construction of academic knowledge involves a complex interplay between politics, knowledge, power relations, and the structure of the higher education system
Curriculum · Higher education · Impossibility · Legitimacy · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Power structure · Social science · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law
Is Higher Education Fair to Women?
The Structuring of Pedagogic Discourse
Decline of Donnish Dominion
Introducing Women’s Studies
Pedagogy and student change in the women's and gender studies classroom
Feminist Knowledge and the Ivory Tower
The sexual politics of introducing women's studies
Academic Community – Discourse or Discord
The problem of gender for Women's Studies
Women's studies and ‘the disciplines’
On the bottom rung
An introduction to women's studies
Breaking out—Women in adult education
The Woman Question
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2021 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |