Women of Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove
By Nadya Aisenberg.
Description
Drawing on more than sixty interviews, this book examines women's struggle to gain authority in the academic profession and to use that authority to change conventional practices. The authors argue that as women rise in academe, they are stymied at a certain level by the remaining force of the old norms which in the past barred women from professional life altogether. These norms decreed a sharp division between public and private realms, assigning men to public duties, women to private, men to intellectual pursuits, women to emotional and relational ones.Although the strict division o...
ISBN(s)
0870236075, 9780870236075
