Erotic mentoring : women's transformations in the university.
They're everywhere in the academy: young, bright women mentored by older scholars, usually men, who attempt to mold them into their own masculine ideals. Janice Hocker Rushing's study of over 200 women and their life transformations is the subject of this eloquent book. Using the tropes of...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Walnut Creek :
Left Coast Press, Inc.,
2010.
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Colección: | Writing lives--ethnographic narratives.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | They're everywhere in the academy: young, bright women mentored by older scholars, usually men, who attempt to mold them into their own masculine ideals. Janice Hocker Rushing's study of over 200 women and their life transformations is the subject of this eloquent book. Using the tropes of mythology and Jungian psychology, the author characterizes the many paths these women's academic lives take: as Muse for a faltering older scholar, as Mistress or wife, as the dutiful academic daughter. Their resistance to this power differential also takes many forms: as a Veiled Woman, silent in public but. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (326 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781598747997 1598747991 1598740261 9781598740264 1315429497 9781315429496 1315429470 9781315429472 |