Erotic Mentoring
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academic power dynamics
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Critical Animus
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female academic identity development
feminist psychology
gendered mentorship
Handless Maiden
Hero's Journey
higher education transformation
Indepen Dent
Indepen Dent Study
Jungian archetypes
Mag Gie
Maiden Lover
mythological analysis
Swizzle Stick
Tem Porary
Thematic Apper Ception Test
Unwelcome Guest
Wom En
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781598740271
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2005
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 active in private, or the Siren, using her sexuality to beat the system. Ultimately, Rushing arrives at the myth of Eros and Psyche, where women’s self understanding and personal development turns her erotic mentoring into an autonomous, whole, and free life, unfettered by any man. These women’s stories and Rushing’s literary and literate framing of their lives will ring true to many in the university.
Janice Hocker Rushing
