Working-class Women in the Academy
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access and equity discussions
autobiographical teaching portraits
blue-collar scholar memoirs
blue-collar women's narratives
campus belonging and exclusion
campus culture critique
campus inequality case studies
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class-based pedagogical insights
class-conscious academic stories
class-conscious feminist testimony
community-rooted scholarship
educational journey testimonies
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everyday resistance and survival
faculty narratives from below
faculty-labor reflections
feminist praxis in education
first-generation college reflections
first-person scholarly voices
from pupil to professor accounts
gender and class intersection
gendered labor in universities
grassroots feminist pedagogy
higher-education memoirs
intersectional classroom narratives
labor and gender policy critiques
laboring-class feminist writing
memory work and positionality
mentorship and access struggles
narrative of social mobility
narratives of institutional survival
oral personal history pieces
pedagogical identity examinations
pedagogies born of hardship
personal-professional boundary work
qualitative life-history accounts
reflections on teaching labor
resilience in higher learning
scholar-activist personal essays
socioeconomic barriers to academia
teaching as emotional labor
teaching workload and identity
undervalued labor recognition
women's workplace and campus life
Product details
- ISBN 9780870238352
- Weight: 559g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jun 1993
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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My mother still wants me to get a 'real' job. My father, who is retired after 44 years in the merchant marine, has never read my work. When I visited recently, the only book in his house was the telephone book. ""I do not know that my mother's mother ever acknowledged my college education except to ask me once, 'How can you live so far away from your people?'"" Thus write two of the 20 women from working-class backgrounds whose voices are heard in this collection of essays. Each of the women has lived through the process of academic socialisation - as both student and teacher - and each has thought long and deeply about her experiences from an explicitly feminist perspective. The editors ask: what are the issues - pedagogical, theoretical and personal - that affect the professional and private lives of these women; how do they resolve tensions between their roles as middle-class professionals and their roots in working-class families; how do class and gender intersect in the academy? The volume begins with a dialogue on class between Kate Ellis and Lillian S. Robinson. The next four sections contain essays on belonging by Saundra Gardner, Donna Langston, Valerie Miner and Joanna Kadi; on individual experiences by Bell Hooks, Laura H. Weaver, Patricia Clark Smith, Jacqueline Burnside and Suzanne Sowinska; on teaching by Pam Annas, Cheryl Fish, Elisabeth J. Johnson and Rose Zimbardo; and on language and cultural politics by Pamela A. Fox, Sharon O'Dair, Pat Belanoff, Elizabeth A. Fay and Hephzibah Roskelly. The book concludes with an epilogue by Michelle M. Tokarczyk.
