Dismantling the 'Master's House': Feminist Reflections on Institutional Transformation

Critical Sociology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 135-150

  Morimoto, Shauna A ^a   Zajicek, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

ADVANCE; and mathematics; engineering; gender equity; gendered organizations; institutional transformation; sociology; technology; women in science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891593811     PISSN: 08969205     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0896920512460063     Document Type: Article

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