This text brings together writing and research on feminist experience in academia. It covers issues such as provision of care, maternalism in the academy and dynamics of interaction between women in higher eduction. There are challenging and provocative analyses of many questions: how large is the gap between rhetoric and reality in HE institutions? how do institutions behave towards disabled staff? how far is stereotyping still affecting the roles which women play in academia? what do women face when they combine motherhood with teaching or studying? coping mechanisms and survival tactics are brought under scrutiny, and the effect these have on the behaviour of female academics and their interactions with the institution of each other. This text should provide insight and evidence for researchers to further develop their own theories, and also many starting points for those wishing to undertake their own research. Written in collaboration with the Women in Higher Education Network.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Chapter Introduction
• Danusia Malina and Sian Maslin-Prothero
• part
• Section 1 Power: Challenging Care in Higher Education
• chapter 1 Women in Higher Education: The Gap between Corporate Rhetoric and the Reality of Experience
• Pamela Cotterill and Ruth L. Waterhouse
• chapter 2 From Earthquake Zone to Firm Ground: Challenging the Ideology of Heterosexism in Health and Social Work
• LesleyAnne Ezelle and Lindsay Hill
• chapter 3 Surviving the Institution: Working as a Visually Disabled Lecturer in Higher Education
• Sally French
• chapter 4 Women, Social Work and Academia
• Lena Dominelli
• part
• Section 2 Maternalism in the Academy
• chapter 5 Mixing Motherhood and Academia -A Lethal Cocktail
• Carol Munn-Giddings
• chapter 6 'All in a Day's Work': Gendered Care Work in Higher Education
• Tina Barnes-Powell and Gayle Letherby
• chapter 7 Refusing to Be Typecast: The Changing Secretarial Role in Higher Education Administration
• Sandra Wilkins
• chapter Incorporation or Alienation?
• Robyn Thomas
• part
• Section 3 Collective Action: Standing Still or Moving Forward?
• chapter 9 Creating Space: The Development of a Feminist Research Group
• Avril Butler
• chapter 10 Women and Collective Action: The Role of the Trade Union in Academic Life
• Ann J. Kettle
• chapter 11 Who Goes There, Friend or Foe? Black Women, White Women and Friendships in Academia
• Sonia Thompson
• chapter 12 Uneven Developments
• Women's Studies in Higher Education in the 1990s
• Gabriele GrifJin
• chapter 13 Coming Clean: On Being Feminist Editors
• Danusia Malina and Sian Maslin-Prothero
• chapter Notes on Contributors.

This text brings together writing and research on feminist experience in academia. It covers issues such as provision of care, maternalism in the academy and dynamics of interaction between women in higher eduction. There are challenging and provocative analyses of many questions: how large is the gap between rhetoric and reality in HE institutions? how do institutions behave towards disabled staff? how far is stereotyping still affecting the roles which women play in academia? what do women face when they combine motherhood with teaching or studying? coping mechanisms and survival tactics are brought under scrutiny, and the effect these have on the behaviour of female academics and their interactions with the institution of each other. This text should provide insight and evidence for researchers to further develop their own theories, and also many starting points for those wishing to undertake their own research. Written in collaboration with the Women in Higher Education Network.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)