Barbara J Bank

Barbara J. Bank is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia. She has been honored with a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, visiting fellowships at the Australian National University, and three awardsfor outstanding teaching. Her scholarly presentations, books, journal articles, and book chapters are in the areas of social psychology, gender studies, and the sociology of youth and education. She is the co-editor of Gender, Equity, and Schooling: Policy and Practice (1997) and the author of Contradictions in Women's Education: Traditionalism, Careerism, and Community at a Single-Sex College (2002).