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Staging Women's Lives in Academia : Gendered Life Stages in Language and Literature Workplaces /

"Argues that institutional change must accommodate women's professional and personal life stages. Staging Women's Lives in Academia demonstrates how ostensibly personal decisions are shaped by institutions and advocates for ways that workplaces, not women, must be changed. Addressing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Maglin, Nan Bauer, Masse, Michelle A. (Michelle Annette), 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Graduate School. 1. A Job That Gets Old Fast: Age Studies, Academic Labor Criticism, and the Graduate Employee
  • 2. Discourse of Aspiration: A Community of Nontraditional Women Students
  • 3. The Accidental Academic, or How to Succeed in Academia through Failure and Doubt
  • 4. Uses of My Anger: Negotiating Mothering, Feminism, and Graduate School
  • 5. The Chaos of Kairos: Conflicting Discourses of Timing, Mothering, and Flexibility
  • Part II. Early Career (Including Pre-Tenure). 6. Working-Class Women on the Tenure Track
  • 7. My Double Life in Academia, or Extreme Parenting on the Tenure Track
  • 8. Solo on Stage: The Single Mother's Solitary Path to Tenure
  • 9. Square Peg, Round Hole: My Journey toward Professor of Practice
  • 10. Currency
  • 11. Settling Down without Settling: Reflecting on Ambition, Agency, and Acquiescence
  • Part III. Midcareer (Including Post-Tenure). 12. Lives Like Mine: Notes at Midlife on Career Change
  • 13. The Good Enough Academic Mother at Midcareer
  • 14. Solitary in the South: Confessions of a Single Academic at Midlife
  • 15. (In)Visibilities: A Woman Faculty of Color's Search for a Disabled Identity That Fits
  • 16. Voicing Discontent: Gender, Working-Class Values, and Composition Studies
  • 17. Staging Women's Lives on the "Altac" Track
  • 18. Gratitude, Agency, and the Reformation of the Stage Approach
  • Part IV. Late Career and Retirement. 19. The Academic Slow Lane
  • 20. Relentless Improvising: A Full Professor Struggles to Manage Work, Family, and Health
  • 21. An Academic Evolution: From Chicanita to Mamá to Abuela
  • 22. Love's Labors: Taking Care of Mother
  • 23. A View of Her Own
  • 24. The Work of Retirement
  • 25. Retirement in Two Voices.