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title	:	Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia
author	:	Toth, Emily.
publisher	:	University of Pennsylvania Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0812215664
print isbn13	:	9780812215663
ebook isbn13	:	9780585323589
language	:	English
subject	Women college teachers--United States--Miscellanea, Women graduate students--United States--Miscellanea, Women college teachers--United States--Social conditions, Women graduate students--United States--Social conditions, Women college teachers--United St
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	LB2332.3.T68 1997eb
ddc	:	378.1/2/082
subject	:	Women college teachers--United States--Miscellanea, Women graduate students--United States--Miscellanea, Women college teachers--United States--Social conditions, Women graduate students--United States--Social conditions, Women college teachers--United St

Page iii Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia Emily Toth

Page iv Copyright 1997 Emily Toth All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6097 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Toth, Emily. Ms. Mentor's impeccable advice for women in academia / Emily Toth. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0812215664 (alk. paper) 1. Women college teachersUnited StatesMiscellanea. 2. Women graduate studentsUnited StatesMiscellanea. 3. Women college teachersUnited StatesSocial conditions. 4. Women graduate studentsUnited StatesSocial conditions. 5. Women college teachersUnited StatesConduct of life. 6. Women graduate studentsUnited StatesConduct of life. I. Title. LB2332.3.T68 1997 378.1 '2'082dc21 976259 CIP

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Page vii Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Graduate School: The Rite of Passage 1 The Job Hunt 21 The Conference Scene 43 First Year on the Job 58 The Perils and Pleasures of Teaching 83 When Cultures Collide 105 Muddles and Puzzles 128 Slouching Toward Tenure 160 Post-Tenure 182 Emerita: The Golden Years 202 Final Words 206 Bibliography: Women in Academia and Other Readings Sampled by Ms. Mentor 209 Index 217

Page ix Preface Ms. Mentor was born in late 1991, when Emily Toth stewed and bubbled with a thwarted desire to change the world of academics for womenor at least tell the younger generation Some Sordid Truths. Having spent nearly a quarter-century in academia, and having survived all those years as an out-front feminist, often being a feminist when feminism wasn't cool... Professor Toth felt she had much to say to younger women. She wanted to share information about opportunities and ostracisms, truths and trickeries, pitfalls and platitudes (such as "this university values teaching ever so much" and "we're a meritocracy, of course" and "we treat everyone equally, even women''). But Emily Toth found that many a new academic woman said, in effect, and with an admirable independent spirit: "Please, Mother, I'd rather do it myself"find my own way, make my own mistakes. Having eschewed biological motherhood herself, Emily Toth found it ironic that her advice could be brushed aside by those who weren't evenwretched truthher own daughters. She is not, of course, disparaging the entire younger generation. Many a woman newer to academia used Emily Toth's counsel wisely; some were also grateful, publicly. One or two sent expensive posies. Yet Emily Toth longed to reach a wider audienceand so was hatched Ms. Mentor, a crotchety spirit who never leaves her ivory tower, from which she dispenses her perfect wisdom on all things academic. Like her counterpart Miss Manners, Ms. Mentor is impeccably knowledgeable and self-confident, and knows much more than anyone will ever ask. Where E. Toth failed, Ms. Mentor would succeed. And so "Ms. Mentor," a column of advice to women professors, graduate students, recovering academics, and those who love them, made her first

Page x appearance in the spring of 1992 in Concerns, the journal of the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages. Ms. Mentor dealt with, among other things, what to wear to academic conventionsa subject that got her denounced in certain circles for "triviality." (But she still believes that the personal is political: poufy sleeves are not powerful.)

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