Breaking and Entering: State-Level Recognition of Women as Lawyers

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Heather Perretta
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Event History Analysis ◽  
State Level ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Barriers To Entry ◽  
The Public ◽  
Nineteenth Amendment ◽  
Civic Organizations ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles

Abstract Research on state-level suffrage associations points to women's greater participation in the public sphere—higher education, the professions, and civic organizations—as a significant predictor of a state's suffrage association succeeding in securing woman suffrage prior to passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. This finding raises the question of how women gained access to those areas of public life that had formal barriers to entry—higher education and the professions. Specifically, did women's participation in civic organizations play a role in helping women gain access to these areas of the public realm? Using event history analysis, this study explores the role of the Literary Club movement and the Suffrage movement in influencing a state's policy regarding women's right to practice law. I employ the concept of institutional logics to argue that Clubwomen and Suffragists exploited contradictions in the logics of traditional gender roles and of the American political system to press for expanded opportunities for women in the public realm. Their success in these efforts, however, was influenced by their organizations’ deference to the dictates of traditional gender roles.

The Role of Writing and Sociability for the Establishment of a Persona

2021 ◽  
pp. 195-210
Author(s):  
Anne Pollok
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Mutual Exchange ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Public ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Public Persona ◽  
One Step ◽  
Self Formation

This chapter examines the various strategies of intellectual self-formation by female intellectuals. While Henriette Herz created the public persona of the nurturing muse in her salon and established the idea of mutual exchange between the sexes, Rahel Varnhagen took the idea of self-reflection in the eyes of others one step further and, together with her husband, created a monument of remembrance with her collection of letters, fashioning the modern persona as fundamentally constituted through her exchange with others. Bettina von Arnim, finally, had no qualms using the most prominent poet, Goethe, as a prop in her writings, exercising the subversive power of remembrance to establish herself. Even though all these strategies build on the (male) other, they showcase the potential to subvert traditional gender roles.

The Public Field in Brazil

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-62
Author(s):  
Magda L Lucio ◽  
Lindijane SB Almeida ◽  
Raquel MC Silveira
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Management ◽  
State Level ◽  
Field Education ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Intellectual Diversity ◽  
Making A Difference ◽  
Epistemological Understanding

Contemporary public management in Brazil is undergoing a great deal of transformation. From the year 2008 the Brazilian Federal government has been investing in policies and planned actions that aim to expand access to Higher Education. This paradigm shift was possible through the understanding that the agenda of public problems required trained professionals with appropriate skills, able to propose plans, programs and elaborate projects, fostering the evolution and consolidation of Brazilian democracy. The changes in contemporary Brazilian public management have permitted the debate amongst researchers in the Higher Education sphere, evolving to what is conventionally known as the Public Field. This field integrates views that deal with contemporary processes that aim to change public management either at the state or non-state level, in its various dimensions, seeking to innovate teaching and research in the area of public policy. This article aims to reflect on the specific academic issues related to Public Field Education in Brazil. It also aims to promote an epistemological understanding related to the intellectual diversity present in this area. It considers the assumption that a multidisciplinary approach, characteristic of field courses, generates new experiences and knowledge, making a difference in the formation toward a critical view of reality in which the students are part. In order to conduct the research, a comparative analysis of experiences developed in recent years was proposed. It is seen that the curricula must converge, aiming to educate the manager who understands this phenomenon and the needs of contemporary society, who is able to recognize and work with the rights of citizens, as well as be present in the relations between state and society, with responsibilities of integrating public policy programs, optimizing the use of public resources, being able to redesign programs and projects in order to monitor and evaluate public policies.

The Political Economy of Public Universities in the United States: A Review Essay

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Lowry
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Public Services ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Trade Offs

Scholars of state politics and policy have devoted little attention to the public universities where so many of them work. Public higher education is organized at the state level, and its funding and governance have been debated at length in many states in recent years. Moreover, these universities provide opportunities for contributions to a variety of theoretically-grounded research, including the decision to make or buy public services, principal-agent issues and institutional arrangements for governance, the politics of institutional reform, the determinants of government appropriations and budgetary trade-offs, and internal decisionmaking in state-owned enterprises, public bureaucracies, and nonprofit organizations. Research on these issues could not only generate insights relevant to many types of institutions and public services but also contribute to ongoing policy debates over relations between state governments and higher education.

Evoking My Shadow Beast

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Carrie Sampson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Double Bind ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Degree ◽  
Critical Race Feminism ◽  
Graduate Degrees ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles

Life does not stop for anyone pursuing a graduate degree. For women of color, however, cultural and familial pressures sometimes make finishing our graduate degrees more difficult. This chapter explores the experience of a woman of color doctoral student completing her dissertation while also caring for her two young children, watching over two parents who struggled with serious illnesses, and managing a household. Framed by critical race feminism, this counterstory highlights microaggressions that exist in institutions of higher education but also within families. Exploring notions such as Superwoman, the “double-bind,” and the often-competing expectations related to traditional gender roles and aspirations, this chapter urges women of color to consider different ways of caretaking that promote liberation, eliminating the patriarchal and misogynistic expectations that tend to hinder the progress of women of color in graduate school.

scholarly journals Sub-sector branding and nation branding: the case of higher education

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hogne Lerøy Sataøen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Nation Branding ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Values ◽  
One Stop

Purpose This paper concerns public sub-sector branding within the higher education (HE) system. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how public sub-sector branding within HE is organized and how it is influenced by the use of national values, traits and characteristics. Design/methodology/approach The study relies on two data sources: first, the paper benefits from a data set of one-stop web-portals for HE from the 23 countries listed in Times Higher Education’s top-60 universities ranking. Second, it builds on a sample and brief overview of Norway’s sub-sector branding of its HE sector. Findings Expert authorities within the HE sector are legally and organizationally responsible for sub-sector branding, and they establish coordinated and coherent web-portals. In practice, however, nation-branding concerns are influencing on how the HE sub-sector is branded. The paper concludes with a discussion of democratic implications, and points to paradoxes arising from the use of national clichés and characteristics in this highly international sub-sector of the public realm. Originality/value The paper informs discussions about public sub-sector branding within HE, a phenomenon that thus far has not been systematically studied. The practical applications of such a study are evident, as branding is becoming more important in the public sector in general, and in HE in particular.

scholarly journals Competitiveness Management of Educational Services in Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.38) ◽  
pp. 284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Valentinovich Kosevich ◽  
Veronika Olegovna Kozhina ◽  
Galina Viktorovna Pinkovskaya ◽  
Olga Igorevna Rybyakova ◽  
Olga Yevgenievna Lebedevaa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Home Country ◽  
State Level ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
The Public

The article substantiates key components of competitiveness management of educational services in higher education. The research outcomes have allowed identifying the main competitive advantages of educational services, which include the availability of additional educational services, the ability to participate in students’ exchange programs in home country and abroad, practical significance, assistance with employment, and reliable material and technical base. In the context of an integrated approach, the article proposes the organizational and economic mechanism for competitiveness management of educational services, which includes institutional support, economic security, social security, as well as technical and regulatory support. In order to solve the problem of inefficient use of financial resources, it is proposed to establish committees at the state level, the members of which will be representatives of the public sector, international community, and other experts in this field.   

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