Solitudes of the Workplace: Women in Universities 9780773598089

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

147 104 5MB

English Pages [331] Year 2015

Solitudes of the Workplace: Women in Universities
9780773598089

Author / Uploaded
Elvi Whittaker

Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Part One Solitudes and Formal Knowledge
Introduction Narratives of Solitude
1 Building and Redefining Women’s Studies in Canada
2 Canadian Feminist Anthropology: Imagining the Terrain
3 Constructing Knowledge for Equity in the University: What Do the Categories Tell Us ?
Part Two Identities and the Everyday
Introduction Identities and the Everyday
4 Tenure (Un)Secure/d: As Words Go Into Labour
5 Seeking Scientific Voice: Strategies for Emerging Scientists
6 Solidarity in the Solitudes of Student Life: Contemporary Women Students Discuss Life and Work in the Academy
7 Changing by Degrees: The Narratives of Mature Women Students
8 The Non-Nons: Secretarial and Clerical Staff
9 It’s Not Just the Glass Ceiling, It’s the Caste Ceiling
10 Contractual University Teaching: The Question of Gender
11 The Missing Link: Research Nurses and Their Contribution to the Production of Research Knowledge
12 Collective Insecurity: An Exploration of the Experiences of Women Faculty in Atlantic Canada
Afterthoughts
References
Contributors
Index

Polecaj historie

Solitudes of the Workplace : Women in Universities [1 ed.] 9780773598089, 9780773546325

Solitudes of the Workplace focuses on experiences of marginalization, uncertainty and segregation created by the hierarc

149 43 1MB Read more

Women in the Japanese workplace 9780948096181, 9780948096198

132 38 59MB Read more

Bitch Fight: Put and End to Women Bullying Women in the Workplace 9781987982077, 9781987982084

Thud! Crack! That’s the sound heard around the world as women bash their head against that impenetrable glass ceiling. I

121 100 206KB Read more

The Philosophy of Creative Solitudes 9781350077850, 9781350077881, 9781350077867

What is solitude, why do we crave and fear it, and how do we distinguish it properly from loneliness? It lies at the cor

212 60 34MB Read more

Two Solitudes 9780773553897

New editions of the major works of a seminal Canadian writer. Two Solitudes is the story of two peoples within one nat

237 46 8MB Read more

Angels of the Workplace: Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940 9781442657434

In this renowned 1997 study of the clothing industry in Canada, Mercedes Steedman examines how the intricate weaving tog

170 89 3MB Read more

The Rise of Universities 9780801470080

The origin and nature of the earliest universities are the subjects of this famous and witty set of lectures by the man

171 57 4MB Read more

The nations in the mediaeval universities.

216 59 90MB Read more

Women in the Modern Workplace : Gender Barriers to Business Start-Ups [1 ed.] 9781443816274, 9781443813853

The primary focus of this research is to examine the process of venture creation among women in Ireland and the dynamics

164 34 590KB Read more

Women and equality in the workplace : a reference handbook 9781280711855, 128071185X, 9781576079379, 1576079376, 9781576079386, 1576079384

640 111 2MB Read more