Personal and Political

This work reviews education policy and academic developments since the 1970s. It explores the relationships between social and family change, political movements and public policy developments and shows how they have influenced theories, research and methodologies in the academy. It examines three phases of political change: social democracy/liberalism and the rise of social movements, especially feminism; economic liberalism; and neo-liberalism. It considers how each has influenced theories and practices around family, gender and higher education. Feminist theories in the academy have become embedded in the social sciences and new educational practices and pedagogy have developed around personal perspectives. The text shows how feminist research and ethnographic perspectives based on personal experiences, narratives, voices and stories are used to account for social and policy changes.

ISBN 1858563054   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9781858563053 (What's this?)   Pages 190 Publisher Trentham Books Ltd   Volumes 1 Imprint Trentham Books Ltd   Weight (grammes) 331 Format Paperback   Published in Stoke-on-Trent Publication date 01 Apr 2003   Height (mm) 226 Non-book description 227 p. ;   Width (mm) 145 Library of Congress HQ1190   Spine width (mm) 13 DEWEY 305.42   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

1		Introduction: An intellectual biography as a feminist sociologist of family lives		1
2		'The Personal is Political': Political contexts and challenges of second wave feminism		27
3		Feminists move into the academy		61
4		New Right turn and feminism in the academy: 'Bristol Fashion'		83
5		'Femocracy' and feminist management in the academy: Contexts and challenges		105
6		Changing social conditions and feminist theories: From post-socialism to post-structuralism		131
7		The Political is Personal: Personal responsibilities and personal reflections about work-life balance		157
8		Conclusions: Feminists theorize the personal		185
		Bibliography and References		197
		Index		217

... contains a wealth of information on feminist writers, includes explanations of concepts such as women's liberation and 'first and second wave feminism', and the development of sociological study methods of the family from a feminist perspective. It has much to recommend it. Auto/Biography An important contribution to feminist understandings of the interdependence of the personal and the political. Educational Review

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