Double jeopardy : addressing gender equity in special education /

Highlighting the educational issues of girls and young women with disabilities, this book examines how they are exposed to discrimination based on gender and disability/special education status, and how they experience less successful vocational outcomes than their disabled male or nondisabled femal...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rousso, Harilyn, 1946-, Wehmeyer, Michael L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2001]
Series:SUNY series, social context of education.
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Table of Contents:
  • Beyond pedestals : the lives of girls and women with disabilities / Adrienne Asch, with Harilyn Rousso, Taran Jefferies
  • Won't you know all of me? Recognizing the confluence of disability, gender and ethnicity / Eric Jolly
  • Gender equity in education : change and challenge / Katherine Hanson, Susan J. Smith
  • Title IX : what does it mean for teachers? / Melissa Keyes
  • She bakes and he builds : gender bias in the curriculum / Susan Shaffer, Linda Shevitz
  • Can she really do science? Gender disparities in math and science education / Ellen Wahl
  • Squeaky wheels versus invisibility : gender bias in teacher-student interactions / Dolores A. Grayson
  • Stopping sexual harassment in schools / Eleanor Linn, Harilyn Rousso
  • Schools fail boys too : exposing the con of traditional masculinity / Craig Flood
  • Teaching as though both genders count : guidelines for designing nonsexist inclusive curricula / Theresa Mickey McCormick
  • Uncovering bias in the classroom : a personal journey / Maryann Wickett
  • Research on gender bias in special education services / Michael L. Wehmeyer, Michelle Schwartz
  • Gender equity issues in the vocational and transition services and employment outcomes experienced by young women with disabilities / Bonnie Doren and Michael Benz
  • Nothing to do after school : more of an issue for girls / Merle Froschl, Harilyn Rousso, Ellen Rubin
  • What do Frida Kahlo, Wilma Mankiller, and Harriet Tubman have in common? Providing role models for girls with (and without) disabilities / Harilyn Rousso
  • The Living Out Loud program : building resiliency in adolescent girls with disabilities / Nancy Ferreyra, Estelle Eskenazi
  • Addressing gender equity in special education services : an agenda for the twenty-first century / Michael L. Wehmeyer, Harilyn Rousso.