Staging Women's Lives in Academia: Gendered Life Stages in Language and Literature Workplaces
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Description
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 life stages ranging from graduate school through retirement, these essays represent a gamut of institutions and women who draw upon both personal experience and scholarly expertise. The contributors contemplate the slipperiness of the very categories we construct to explain the stages of life and ask key questions, such as what does it mean to be a graduate student at fifty? Or a full professor at thirty-five? The book explores the ways women in all stages of academia feel that they are always too young or too old, too attentive to work or too overly focused on family. By including the voices of those who leave, as well as those who stay, this collection signals the need to rebuild the house of academia so that women can have not only classrooms of their own but also lives of their own.
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ISBN
9781438464206
Publication Date
2017
Department
Department of English
Publisher
State University of New York Press
City
Albany
Recommended Citation
Massé, Michelle Annette, "Staging Women's Lives in Academia: Gendered Life Stages in Language and Literature Workplaces" (2017).