CHAMPIONING CHANGE - Tecno-Libro

AS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE FROM DiVERSE CULTURES AND ETHNiCiTiES CONTiNUE to increase in our educational institutions and communities, there has been a heightened need for awareness of diversity and global issues affecting women, particularly, in the Third World. A major challenge to feminist scholars in the current era of globalization is to endeavor to raise global consciousness of women s lives through research, scholarship, and activism. This book is about championing change. it is a compilation of essays by international women in higher education on specific issues of interest and concern to them and to their constituencies. This book is unique in several ways: it locates the essays within the larger discourse on women s empowerment for social change and allows for the understanding of the plight of women as being deeply rooted in the intersection of societal ideologies and women s identity, locationality, positionality and then actualized in gendered social institutions and struc