Setting out to challenge the traditional power basis of the policy decision makers in education, this text illustrates the use of a critical and feminist lens and the creation policies to meet the needs, aspirations and values of women and girls. Focus is on post-secondary education.

Part 1: women managing for diversity in a postmodern world, R. Deem and J. Ozga; making the People's University in South Africa, M. Walker; affirmative action and the status of women in the academy, J. Glazer; legitimacy maintenance - the politics of women's studies, C. Marshall and J. O'Barr. Part 2: lesbian existance and the challenge to normative Constructions Of The Academy, E. Bensimon; Emotional Work In A Chilly climate, S. Acker and G. Feuerverger; new piece on women in math in universities, S. Frances. Part 3: Mother's School with feminist philosophy in Netherlands, Ter Dam; feminist pedagogy and the politics of authority, power and desire - educational theory, C. Luke; teaching to trangress - education as the practice of freedom, B. Hooks; from margin to marginality - a feminist in a PE classroom, R. Lock.