Ropers-Hulman And Winters Summary

Rebecca Ropers-Huilman and Kelly T. Winters discuss how a lack of understanding about the bias towards the male gender in education may correlate to the underrepresentation of explicitly feminist research in popular higher education academic journals. They define feminism as a theory on currently existing injustices with a focus on the analysis of gender. Ropers-Huilman and Winters point out that gendered identities are ascribed, but they develop differently in various cultures that have their own definitions on what is means to be women or men. When people speak for women, Ropers-Huilman and Winters argue that they assume that all women have gone through similar experiences when that is not the case. Because of this assumption, women are unable to develop their full potential despite having something truly valuable to contribute to society. Ropers-Huilman and Winters urge scholars to consider what feminist research can offer to higher education studies. They
They frequently reference a multitude of other researchers that further add to and strengthen their argument through the usage of quotes. Although, Ropers-Huilman and Winters do not reference their points back to the stigma of the natural inferiority of women enough to have a strong argument in that aspect. But even though my research is related to the negative stigma of feminism, the claims of Ropers-Huilman and Winters can be used to emphasize the lack of feminist voices in the most influential education journals to support my argument over the long lasting cultural view of male dominance. With their detailed explanations over how feminists research in contrast to normal research, I will have a variety of facts to support one of my questions of how their research can be ignored when they are so precise with their unique processes and put great value into their