ABSTRACT
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 eduction. There are challenging and provocative analyses of many questions: how large is the gap between rhetoric and reality in HE institutions? how do institutions behave towards disabled staff? how far is stereotyping still affecting the roles which women play in academia? what do women face when they combine motherhood with teaching or studying? coping mechanisms and survival tactics are brought under scrutiny, and the effect these have on the behaviour of female academics and their interactions with the institution of each other. This text should provide insight and evidence for researchers to further develop their own theories, and also many starting points for those wishing to undertake their own research. Written in collaboration with the Women in Higher Education Network.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |1 pages
Section 1 Power: Challenging Care in Higher Education
chapter 1|10 pages
Women in Higher Education: The Gap between Corporate Rhetoric and the Reality of Experience
chapter 2|13 pages
From Earthquake Zone to Firm Ground: Challenging the Ideology of Heterosexism in Health and Social Work
chapter 3|11 pages
Surviving the Institution: Working as a Visually Disabled Lecturer in Higher Education
part |1 pages
Section 2 Maternalism in the Academy
chapter 6|9 pages
‘All in a Day’s Work’: Gendered Care Work in Higher Education
chapter 7|12 pages
Refusing to Be Typecast: The Changing Secretarial Role in Higher Education Administration
part |1 pages
Section 3 Collective Action: Standing Still or Moving Forward?