TY  - BOOK
AU  - Li,Guofang
AU  - Beckett,Gulbahar H.
TI  - "Strangers" of the academy: Asian women scholars in higher education 
SN  - 1579221203
AV  - LC2633.6 .S84 2006
U1  - 378.1208995073 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Sterling, Va.
PB  - Stylus Pub.
KW  - Asian American women college teachers
KW  - United States
KW  - Women scholars
KW  - Discrimination in higher education
N1  - Foreword : identities Asian, female, scholar : critiques and celebrations of the North American Academy; Shirley Geok-Lin Lim --; Introduction : reconstructing culture and identity in the academy : Asian female scholars theorizing their experiences; Guofang Li and Gulbahar H. Beckett --; 1; Asian Pacific American women and men in higher education : the contested spaces of their participation, persistence, and challenges as students, faculty, and administrators; Shirley Hune --; 2; Asian American gender gap in science and technology : tracking male versus female college students' paths toward academic careers; Jaekyung Lee --; 3; Theorizing experiences of Asian women faculty in second- and foreign-language teacher education; Angel Lin, Ryuko Kubota, Su Motha, Wendy Wang and Shelly Wong --; 4; Professing in a nonnative tongue : narrative construction of realities and opportunities; Xiaoping Liang --; 5; Multiple mentors in my career as a university faculty; Keilo Komiya Samimy --; 6; Navigating multiple roles and multiple discourses : a young Asian female scholar's reflection on within-race-and-gender interactions; Guofang Li --; 7; Asian American women in the academy : overcoming stress and overturning denials in advancement; Chalsa M. Loo and Hsiu-Zu Ho --; 8; Brown in black and white : on being a South Asian woman academic; Nina Asher --; 9; Unmasking the self : struggling with the model minority stereotype and lotus blossom image; Eunai Kim Shrake --; 10; Within the "safe haven" of women's studies : a Thai female faculty's reflection on identity and scholarship; Piya Pangsapa --; 11; Between the worlds : searching for a competent voice; Yan Guo --; 12; Moderation, modesty, creativity, and criticalness : a Chinese American medical professor speaks; Gulbahar H. Beckett and Jianhua Zhang --; 13; The road less traveled : an Asian woman immigrant faculty's experience practice global pedagogy in teacher education; Guichun Zong --; 14; From mentorship to friendship, collaboration, and collegiality; Xue Lan Rong and Judith Preissle --; 15; Building bridges, working for a better world; Jing Lin
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