Higher Education and Gender—Current Research Perspectives

Abstract

Many individual universities as well as the specifically European institution of the university can point to a continuity that reaches back well into the Middle Ages. However, universities present not a gender-neutral object of study, but instead in many respects represent a “gendered organization.” The collected volume provides different views on this gendered dimension. In order to study ‘gender’ as a category of knowledge in relation to the social organization of higher education and to gender culture it is necessary that there exist a better mutual respect between research on higher education and research on women and gender studies. Especially the reflexive perception of the way in which the university and gender researchers are themselves affected is accorded crucial meaning.