Gillian Howie, University of Liverpool, UK and Ashley Tauchert, University of Exeter, UK Contributors: Erica Halvorsen, Sue Jackson, Val Walsh, Barbara Bagilhole, Gillian Howie, Ashley Tauchert, Alan Bleakley, Louise Morley, Christina Hughes, Penny Welch, Barbara Korner, Jen Marchbank, Gayle Letherby, Zoe Bennett Moore, Becky Francis, Jocelyn Robson, Barbara Read, Jennifer FitzGerald, Mary S. Erickson, Karen J. Vogel, Allison Green, Valerie A. Clifford, Colleen Chesterman, Sandra Harding.

• Contents: Preface; Introduction; Women in higher education: Gender audit, Erica Halvorsen; Transcending boundaries: women, research and teaching in the Academy, Sue Jackson; Equal opportunities without ’equality’: redeeming the irredeemable, Val Walsh; Against the odds? Reflections on women academics’ research opportunities, Barbara Bagilhole; Models of higher education: Institutional discrimination and the 'cloistered' academic ideal, Gillian Howie and Ashley Tauchert; Teaching as hospitality: the gendered ’gift’ and teaching style, Alan Bleakley; Lifelong yearning: feminist pedagogy in the learning society, Louise Morley; Pedagogies of, and for, resistance, Christina Hughes; Feminist Pedagogies: Feminist pedagogy and power in the Academy, Penny Welch; Feminist pedagogy and personal engagement in higher education, Barbara Körner; Offensive and defensive: student support and higher education evaluation, Jen Marchbank and Gayle Letherby; Assessment and evaluation: Creative risk-taking: feminist pedagogy and assessment criteria, Zoë Bennett Moore; Gendered patterns in writing and degree award, Becky Francis, Jocelyn Robson and Barbara Read; The sea of possibilities: the learning journal as pedagogy of the unconscious, Jennifer FitzGerald; Overseas Perspectives: Assessment of caring: a feminist curricular transformation, Mary S. Erickson; Feminist pedagogy and international studies, Karen J. Vogel; Queer theory and lesbian politics in the community college, Allison Green; A feminist, collaborative process of academic development, Valerie A. Clifford; Women’s executive development in Australian higher education, Colleen Chesterman; The troublesome concept of merit, Sandra Harding; Index.

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