“SWEEPING THE HEAVENS FOR A COMET”: WOMEN, THE LANGUAGE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE US
探讨政治经济学如何提供叙事，合理化女性在高等教育中的有限参与，通过分析19-20世纪美国学术文化中的女性代表，帮助理解全球女性在高等教育中争取话语权的斗争。
Abstract The importance of increased levels of education in improving the status of women throughout the world is well established. Higher levels of education are associated with lower birth rates, higher incomes, and greater autonomy for women. Yet, women's struggle to have a voice in higher education has been fraught with difficulties in the US and worldwide, particularly in overcoming widely held perceptions that limit their entrance into certain academic fields, tenured positions, and elite universities. This essay examines the role political economy has played in providing narratives that rationalize women's limited participation in higher education. By examining the representation of women in the academic culture of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century US, we can perhaps better understand women's struggle to obtain an authoritative voice in higher education worldwide.