Corri Zoli

Engineering: Women and Leadership

Abstract In this book we explore a sea change occurring in leadership for academic women in the sciences and engineering. Our approach is a two-pronged one: On the one hand, we outline the nature of the changes and their sources, both in various literatures and from program research results. On the other hand, we specify and provide detail about the persistent problems and obstacles that remain as barriers to women’s full participation in academic science and engineering, their career advancement and success, and, most important, their role as leaders in making change. At the heart of this book is our goal to give some shape to the research, practice, and programs developed by women academic leaders making institutional change in the sciences and engineering.Table of Contents: Women in a New Era of Academic Leadership / Background: Academic Leadership for Women in Science and Engineering / Gender and Leadership: Theories and Applications / Women in Engineering Leadership Institute: Critical Issues for Wom...

“BLACK HOLES” OF CALCUTTA AND LONDON: INTERNAL COLONIES IN VANITY FAIR

Above all, as a range of interest groups including feminists, ethnic and racial minorities, and queer theorists have argued, the old literary histories routinely erased multiple differences, enshrining the triumph of center over the margins, substituting a false vision of unity for a reality that was and is ever more multiracial, multiethnic and multicultural. English literature was always an unsteady amalgamation . . . like English language itself ... a mixed, impure, and constantly shifting medium. Stephen Greenblatt