Carmen Luke - Globalization and women in academia: North West-South East

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Globalization and Women in Academia

North/WestSouth/East

Carmen Luke
University of Queensland

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Luke, Carmen
Globalization and women in academia: North/West-South/East
Carmen Luke.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8058-3668-3 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 0-8058-3669-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. WomenEducation (HigherCross-cultural studies. 2. Women in ed
ucationCross-cultural studies. 3. Women college teachers
Cross-cultural studies. 4. Women college studentsCross-cultural
studies. 5. Comparative education. I. Title. II. Series.
LC1567 .L85 2001
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Western research on women in higher education has produced a substantial volume of scholarship on womens progress in the last 25 years. A range of structural-institutional, social, and cultural factors and ideologies have been identified as glass-ceiling barriers to womens academic career advancements. In response, numerous intervention strategies to support women in academics have been developed and implemented under equity and affirmative action banners. But in the last 25 years, the relatively stable modernist model of the university has been transformed into a corporate, postmodern university forced to look beyond the campus perimeter at global student markets, product diversification, and electronic delivery of courses. The university is both educational institution and workplace, and it has long been characterized as an international enterprise. More recently, the accelerated pace of people and information flows, global marketing, and increasing standardization across the sector have reshaped its institutional practices and discourses into what is now commonly termed the globalization of higher education. In such an environment, how women fare globally in higher education, whether as staff or students, should matter. Feminism has long argued for the importance of local, situated analyses, yet there is hardly any research on the cultural