Pandora Meyer
Kathy Rowley
English 201-12
October 13, 12
Women in Higher Education bell hooks is using her own back story to help prove a point on
what it and was like going to college and coming from a poor family that could not help fund her
education.
She has Ph.D. in English, but she is more known by her pen name of bell hooks which
comes from her maternal great- grandmother Bell Blair Hooks.
As more females are going to college, we look back and see how different it was when
bell hooks was attending Stanford University. (Gender,equity and the discourse of learner.)
Even bell hooks parents were upset that she wanted to go to a faraway school because
they could not help protect her from what she might face from other people who didn’t approve
of the other races trying to make a better life for them selves. “ It’s the students’ decisions on
whether to continue to higher education or go to work force”. (To Work or to continue to higher
education, Jstor)
She gives the young ladies help by showing them the skills that they will need to know
will give them a head start to be successful in college. Even around the world women have it
hard when it comes to say Japan, or China. “The higher level of admissions of women into
higher education in Japan is analyses in the context of examining revised views about the higher
education of women resulting from changes in the traditional view of the relationship between
higher education and social values”. (Women in Higher Education, Masako Amano, jstor.com).
Sources
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2. hooks,bell. Representing the Poor- pgs.431-437 in Inquiry’s
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