Feminist Critical Policy Analysis: A perspective from post-secondary education

Catherine Marshall

Falmer Press, 1997 - Education - 220 pages

This text sets out to challenge the traditional power basis of the policy decision makers in education. It contests that others who have an equal right to be consulted and have their opinions known have been silenced, declared irrelevant, postponed and otherwise ignored. Policies have thus been formed and implemented without even a cursory feminist critical glance. The chapters in this text illustrate how to incorporate critical and feminist lenses and thus create policies to meet the lived realities, the needs, aspirations and values of women and girls. A particular focus is the primary and secondary sectors of education.

About the author

Born in Johnson City, Tennessee, the daughter of Minister John Ambrose Wood and his wife Leonora, Catherine Marshall was married to Presbyterian minister and Chaplain of the U.S. Senate Peter Marshall. After her husband's death, she wrote his biography, A Man Called Peter, a book that enjoyed tremendous success and became a major motion picture. She followed with numerous devotional books and three novels, two of which -- Christy and Julie -- became national bestsellers. Christy was also made into an extremely popular television series. Catherine Marshall died in 1983, but the popularity of her inspirational writings continues.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Feminist Critical Policy Analysis: A perspective from post-secondary education; Volume 40 of Education policy perspectives; Volume 2 of Feminist Critical Policy Analysis, Catherine Marshall
• Editor: Catherine Marshall
• Publisher: Falmer Press, 1997
• ISBN: 0750706546, 9780750706544
• Length: 220 pages
• Subjects: Education / Administration / General; Education / General