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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783158603321

Titolo

Surviving the academy : feminist perspectives / / edited by Danusia Malina and Sian Maslin-Prothero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, Pa. : , : Falmer Press, , 1998

ISBN

1-135-70148-2

0-203-28975-7

1-135-70149-0

1-280-02028-8

0-203-21013-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MalinaDanusia

Maslin-ProtheroSian

Disciplina

378.1/9822

Soggetti

Women college students - Great Britain - Social conditions

Women college teachers - Great Britain - Social conditions

Women - Education (Higher) - Great Britain

Feminism and education - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Women in Higher Education: The Gap between Corporate Rhetoric and the Reality of Experience; 2 From Earthquake Zone to Firm Ground: Challenging the Ideology of Heterosexism in Health and Social Work; 3 Surviving the Institution: Working as a Visually Disabled Lecturer in Higher Education; 4 Women, Social Work and Academia; 5 Mixing Motherhood and Academia-A Lethal Cocktail; 6 'All in a Day's Work': Gendered Care Work in Higher Education

7 Refusing to Be Typecast: The Changing Secretarial Role in Higher Education Administration 8 Incorporation or Alienation? Resisting the Gendered Discourses of Academic Appraisal; 9 Creating Space: The Development of a Feminist Research Group; 10 Women and Collective Action: The Role of the Trade Union in Academic Life; 11 Who Goes There, Friend or Foe? Black Women, White Women and Friendships in



Academia; 12 Uneven Developments-Women's Studies in Higher Education in the 1990's; 13 Coming Clean: On Being Feminist Editors; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This text brings together writing and research on feminist experience in academia. It covers issues such as provision of care, maternalism in the academy and dynamics of interaction between women in higher education.