Solitudes of the workplace : women in universities / edited by Elvi Whittaker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whittaker, Elvi, Author.

Contributor:

Whittaker, Elvi, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in higher education--Canada.

Women in higher education.

Feminism and higher education--Canada.

Feminism and higher education.

Sex discrimination in higher education--Canada.

Sex discrimination in higher education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montréal, [Quebećbec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.

Summary:

A consideration of workplace identities and the stresses women experience within the university system.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 16, 2016).

ISBN:

9780773598096

077359809X

9780773598089

0773598081

OCLC:

939687918