Solitudes of the workplace : women in universities /

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Imprint:Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.
©2015
Description:xxix, 300 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10492701
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Other authors / contributors:Whittaker, Elvi W, editor.
ISBN:9780773546325 (hardcover)
0773546324 (hardcover)
9780773546332 (paperback)
0773546332 (paperback)
9780773598089
0773598081
9780773598096
077359809X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued also in electronic formats.
Other form:Solitudes of the workplace.
Table of Contents:
  • Part one: solitudes and formal knowledge. Introduction: narratives of solitude / Elvi Whittaker
  • Building and redefining women's studies in Canada / Annalee Lepp
  • Canadian feminist anthropology: imagining the terrain / Winnie Lem
  • Constructing knowledge for equity in the university: what do the categories tell us? / Joan M. Anderson in dialogue with Noga Gayle. Part two Identities and the everyday. Tenure (un)secure/d: as words go into labour / Patricia Palulis
  • Seeking scientific voice: strategies for emerging scientists / Cecilia Moloney
  • Solidarity in the solitudes of student life: contemporary women students discuss life and work in the academy / Katie Aubrecht and Isabel Mackenzie Lay
  • Changing by degrees: the narratives of mature women students / Lelia Kennedy
  • The non-nons: secretarial and clerical staff / Isabella Losinger
  • It's not just the glass ceiling, it's the caste ceiling / Kersti King
  • Contractual university teaching: the question of gender / Linda Cohen
  • The missing link: research nurses and their contribution to the production of research knowledge / Patricia Kaufert
  • Collective insecurity: an exploration of the experiences of women faculty in Atlantic Canada / Zelda Abramson, Phyllis L.F. Rippeyoung, and E. Lisa Price
  • Afterthoughts.