| Description |
1 online resource (215 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Professional Girth / Deborah Keahey and Deborah Schnitzer -- The Reign of Ice / Kate Rogers -- E-mail from Meira Cook -- Day Cares / Sharon Russell -- (M)othering in the Academy / C. Celeste Sulliman -- Mother as Prometheus / Monika Lee -- This Three-Horned Bronco of a Life / Monika B. Hilder -- Cogito ergo mum / Jill Watson Graham -- Nine Steps toward a Twelve-Step Program for Recovering Academics / Deborah Keahey -- Circling Women / Tammy Dewar -- Dancing on the Lines: Mothering, Daughtering, Masking and Mentoring in the Academy / Jennifer Kelly and Aruna Srivastava -- A Valediction: of the Booke / Tanis MacDonald -- Teaching for Legitimacy; or, Tea-ching from the Margins / Nisha Karumanchery-Luik and Helen Ramirez -- Juggling on a High Wire / Fiona Joy Green -- Women in Difficult Spaces / Daisy Beharry -- Winter Afternoon at School / Joan Pillipow -- "Untitled" / Aparita Bhandari -- plain M.A. in blues / Denise M. Blais -- Commencement / Ruth Panofsky -- An Academic Defence / Ranjini Mendis -- Immoderate Musings / Susan Braley -- (avoid) kicking sacred cows / Denise M. Blais -- Slow Advances: The Academy's Response to Sexual Assault / Mary Ellen Donnan -- Portrait / Margaret Shaw-MacKinnon -- Terminus / Randi R. Warne -- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds / Taina Chahal -- Spunk / Carolynn Smallwood -- New Year's Resolutions, 1997 / Jeanette Lynes -- Old Boys / Dee Horne -- The Possibility of Professing Changes / Keith Louise Fulton -- A Guide to Academic Sainthood / Aritha van Herk -- The Stress Tester / Susan Phillips -- Avoiding the Fridge / Mary Monks -- Mad Dogs / Nathalie Cooke -- My Sartorial Ruin / Jeanette Lynes -- Higher Education / Lorri Neilsen Glenn -- Vigilance / Uma Parameswaran -- Cerulean Blues / Vivian Hansen -- Climbing the Walls of Academe / Kay Stone -- A memoir only sometimes funny / Jane Cahill -- Tenure Tracks / Deborah Schnitzer -- When She Is Gone / Kristjana Gunnars -- vintage vignettes / Delores Keahey -- Three White Cranes / Donna Langevin |
| Summary |
An original and highly subversive critique of the academy by women affiliated with universities and colleges across Canada. The book explores topics familiar to women working in academia around the world: the clash between work and family, the politics of academe, the rifts between an academic career and political activism. Includes personal essays, poetry, short stories, dialogues, and other innovative formats. Well-known literary names like Aritha van Herk and Kristjana Gunnars are set alongside less-known, but feisty, newcomers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women college teachers -- Social conditions
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Women college teachers -- Biography
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Women in education.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Women college teachers
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Women college teachers -- Social conditions
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Women in education
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schnitzer, Deborah, 1950-
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Keahey, Deborah Lou
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| ISBN |
9781552383957 |
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1552383954 |
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