Long Island University Education Professor Pens
New Book on the of Women in Higher Education
Aprl 26, 1999 -- Dr. Judith Glazer-Raymo, a professor of education at
the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, NY, has authored
a new book which explores three decades of women's progress in higher education
since 1970.
The book, Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe (The Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1999) uses a critical feminist perspective to contrast
the activism of the 1970s, the passivity of the 1980s, and the ambivalence
and antipathy demonstrated toward feminism in the 1990s.
"These waves of change were brought about by external forces, by
generational differences between women and by intellectual and ideological
struggles within the women's movement and the larger academic culture,"
said Dr. Glazer-Raymo, who teaches in the department of Curriculum and
instruction within C.W. Post's School of Education.
Her work draws on the experience of women faculty and administrators
as they articulated and reflected on the social, economic, political, and
ideological contexts in which they work. Looking toward the next century,
Dr. Glazer-Raymo said: "Women will need to become political actors
at the center of the university in order to throw off the constraints that
inhibit their progress and to undo the effects of the social backlash that
threatens their hard-earned gains of the preceding three decades."
Dr. Glazer-Raymo is the author of A Teaching Doctorate? The Doctor
of Arts, then and Now, and The Master's Degree: Tradition,
Diversity, Innovation, and she is co-editor of Women in Higher
Education: A Feminist Perspective.
The book, Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe, will be available
in June from Johns Hopkins University Press at 1-800-537-5487 or www.press.jhu.edu.
For more information call the C.W. Post Public
Relations Office at (516) 299-2333 or e-mail pr@cwpost.liu.edu
or send mail to: Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern
Blvd., Brookville, New York 11548-1300.
