Solitudes of the Workplace: Women in Universities

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Solitudes of the Workplace: Women in Universities

Resource type

Author/contributor

Whittaker, Elvi (Editor)

Title

Solitudes of the Workplace: Women in Universities

Abstract

Solitudes of the Workplace focuses on experiences of marginalization, uncertainty and segregation created by the hierarchical structures of categories in universities and by gendered identities. Studying a wider range of women’s roles in universities than prior research, the experiences of support staff, senior administrators, researchers, non-academic administrators, and contract teachers are added to those of faculty and students. The essays show how attempts to introduce new knowledge are manoeuvered and the resistance this process can encounter, as well as the ways in which institutional policies can blur and change identities. Addressing longstanding issues such as the entanglement of gender and the assessment of merit, attention is also given to how new identities are claimed and successfully projected. Essays presenting workers' points of view reveal the confusion that occurs when official policy and everyday knowledge conflict, when processes like tenure and other status changes create troublesome realities, and when it becomes routine to experience status denigration. Within the social order of the university and its existing boundaries, gender issues of past decades sometimes surface, but all too often remain an unspoken presence. Solitudes of the Workplace is a revealing look at the isolating experiences and inequities inherent in these institutional environments. --Publisher's description.

Place

Montreal

Publisher

McGill-Queen's University Press

Date

2015

# of Pages

xxix, 300 pages

Language

English

ISBN

978-0-7735-4633-2

Short Title

Solitudes of the Workplace

URL

https://www.mqup.ca/solitudes-of-the-workplace-products-9780773546332.php

Extra

Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/solitudesofworkp0000unse OCLC: 981579876

Notes

Contents: Prologue: A View from the Pinnacle: Conversations with Martha Piper / Sally E. Thorne. Part 1. Solitudes and formal knowledge. Introduction: Narratives of Solitude / Elvi Whittaker (pages 3-16) -- Building and Redefining Women’s Studies in Canada / Annalee Lepp (pages 17-35) -- Canadian Feminist Anthropology: Imagining the Terrain / Winnie Lem (pages 36-52) -- Constructing Knowledge for Equity in the University: What Do the Categories Tell Us? / Joan M. Anderson in Dialogue with Noga Gayle (pages 53-70). Part 2. Two identities and the everyday. Introduction: Identities and the Everyday (pages 71-79) -- Tenure (Un)Secured: As Words Go into Labour / Patricia Palulis (pages 80-99 -- Seeking Scientific Voice: Strategies for Emerging Scientists / Cecilia Moloney (pages 100-117) -- Solidarity in the Solitudes of Student Life: Contemporary Women Students Discuss Life and Work in the Academy 118 / Katie Aubrecht and Isabel Mackenzie Lay (pages 118-135) -- Changing by Degrees: The Narratives of Mature Women Students / Lelia Kennedy (pages 136-155) -- The Non-Nons: Secretarial and Clerical Staff / Isabella Losinger (pages 156-171) -- It’s Not Just the Glass Ceiling, It’s the Caste Ceiling / Kersti Krug (pages 172-190) -- Contractual University Teaching: The Question of Gender / Linda Cohen (pages 191-206) -- The Missing Link: Research Nurses and Their Contribution to the Production of Research Knowledge / Patricia Kaufert (pages 207-223) -- Collective Insecurity: An Exploration of the Experiences of Women Faculty in Atlantic / Zelda Abramson, Phyllis L.F. Rippeyoung, and E. Lisa Price (pages 224-241) -- Afterthoughts. Contents: Prologue: A View from the Pinnacle: Conversations with Martha Piper / Sally E. Thorne. Part 1. Solitudes and formal knowledge. Introduction: Narratives of Solitude / Elvi Whittaker (pages 3-16) -- Building and Redefining Women’s Studies in Canada / Annalee Lepp (pages 17-35) -- Canadian Feminist Anthropology: Imagining the Terrain / Winnie Lem (pages 36-52) -- Constructing Knowledge for Equity in the University: What Do the Categories Tell Us? / Joan M. Anderson in Dialogue with Noga Gayle (pages 53-70). Part 2. Two identities and the everyday. Introduction: Identities and the Everyday (pages 71-79) -- Tenure (Un)Secured: As Words Go into Labour / Patricia Palulis (pages 80-99 -- Seeking Scientific Voice: Strategies for Emerging Scientists / Cecilia Moloney (pages 100-117) -- Solidarity in the Solitudes of Student Life: Contemporary Women Students Discuss Life and Work in the Academy 118 / Katie Aubrecht and Isabel Mackenzie Lay (pages 118-135) -- Changing by Degrees: The Narratives of Mature Women Students / Lelia Kennedy (pages 136-155) -- The Non-Nons: Secretarial and Clerical Staff / Isabella Losinger (pages 156-171) -- It’s Not Just the Glass Ceiling, It’s the Caste Ceiling / Kersti Krug (pages 172-190) -- Contractual University Teaching: The Question of Gender / Linda Cohen (pages 191-206) -- The Missing Link: Research Nurses and Their Contribution to the Production of Research Knowledge / Patricia Kaufert (pages 207-223) -- Collective Insecurity: An Exploration of the Experiences of Women Faculty in Atlantic / Zelda Abramson, Phyllis L.F. Rippeyoung, and E. Lisa Price (pages 224-241) -- Afterthoughts.

Citation

Whittaker, E. (Ed.). (2015). Solitudes of the Workplace: Women in Universities. McGill-Queen’s University Press. https://www.mqup.ca/solitudes-of-the-workplace-products-9780773546332.php

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