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title	:	Women of Academe : Outsiders in the Sacred Grove
author	:	Aisenberg, Nadya.; Harrington, Mona
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0870236067
print isbn13	:	9780870236068
ebook isbn13	:	9780585186979
language	:	English
subject	Women college teachers--United States--Case studies, Women college teachers--Employment--United States--Case studies, Sex discrimination in education--United States--Case studies, Marginality, Social--United States--Case studies.
publication date	:	1988
lcc	:	LB2332.3.A38 1988eb
ddc	:	378/.12/088042
subject	:	Women college teachers--United States--Case studies, Women college teachers--Employment--United States--Case studies, Sex discrimination in education--United States--Case studies, Marginality, Social--United States--Case studies.

Page iii Women of Academe Outsiders in the Sacred Grove Nadya Aisenberg and Mona Harrington The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst 1988

Page iv Copyright (c) 1988 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 87-30067 ISBN 0-87023-606-7 (cloth); 607-5 (pbk) Set in Linotron Meridien at Keystone Typesetting Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Aisenberg, Nadya. Women of academe : outsiders in the sacred grove / Nadya Aisenberg and Mona Harrington. p. cm. Bibliography: p. ISBN 0-87023-606-7 (alk. paper) : ISBN 0-87023-607-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Women college teachersUnited StatesCase studies. 2. Women college teachersEmploymentUnited StatesCase studies. 3. Sex discrimination in educationUnited StatesCase studies. 4. Marginality, SocialUnited StatesCase studies. I. Harrington, Mona, 1936- . II. Title. LB2332.3.A38 1988 378'.12'088042dc19 87-30067 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data are available.

Page v Contents Acknowledgments vii Preface ix Chapter 1 The Old Norms 3 Chapter 2 Transformation 20 Chapter 3 Rules of the Game 41 Chapter 4 Voice of Authority 64 Chapter 5 Women's Work 83 Chapter 6 Life and the Life of the Mind 107 Chapter 7 Countervalues and Change 136 Epilogue Four Lives 157 Appendix 197 Notes 199

Page vii Acknowledgments We would like to acknowledge with gratitude the contributions to the making of this book of many friends and colleagues, including: Members of the Alliance of Independent Scholars and all the other interviewees for their generosity of spirit, their willingness to give time and, especially, to make the intellectual and emotional effort necessary to describe the intricacies of their lives; Jane Lilienfeld and Joann Bromberg who were collaborators in the early stages of the project, Jane in organizing our first joint discussions, Joann in helping to design and to conduct the first interviews; Simone Reagor, Hilda Smith, Lillie Hornig, and Peggy McIntosh for helpful comments on our early planning; Marie Cantlon, Mary Anne Ferguson, and Mary L. Shanley who critiqued the entire manuscript, contributing new dimensions to the analysis at a number of points and many valuable references to relevant feminist work; Bruce Wilcox, Director of the University of Massachusetts Press, for enthusiasm, understanding, efficiency, and wise commentary; Linda Howe and Anita Knight for painstaking transcription; Kristin Klein for laborious footnote checking; and, of course, our families for endless patience, good humor, logistical support, and love.

Page ix Preface This project grew out of our involvement in the formation of the Alliance of independent Scholars in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1980. The Alliance, like similar groups in other areas, developed in response to the prior decade of university retrenchment which had left large numbers of scholars (including ourselves) without academic positions or with peripheral, insecure positions and little likelihood of finding anything better. The initial purpose of the Alliance was to meet two immediate needs of this displaced academic generationand more particularly of displaced academic women who made up most of the organization's membership. These two original foci of activity were support for on-going scholarship being done by many members, and support for career changes which others were exploring. But in the process of helping to organize such programs, we found another focus emerging and this was an exploration, highly informal at first, of the reasons why so many credentialed women had ended upsometimes by choice, usually notoutside the academy. In fact, this inquiry, in some sense, began at the first gathering of women who would later form the organization. The meeting of about forty women opened with introductionseach woman described herself and her situation brieflyand the effect of that round of stories was electrifying. Women who had arrived with the sense that the drama and loss in their own academic careers was more or less unique, felt a shock of recognition, hearing their experience in the lives of others previously unknown to them. It seemed clear from that one meeting, as women of highly divergent backgrounds and fields told stories with strikingly similar plot turns, that we were hearing about a generalized experience. And this conviction grew as subsequent meetings replicated the first: some women left the group and others joined, but the stories stayed the same.

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