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List of contents
Introduction (Shirley R. Steinberg); Feminisms in New Times (Carmen Luke); Unsettling Academic/Feminist Identity (Jennifer Gore); Her-Story: Life History as a Strategy of Resistance to Being Constituted Woman in the Academy (Kristine. S. Kellor); A Stranger in a Strange Land: A Woman Studying Womens Literacies (Linda K. Christian-Smith); The Backlash Factor: Women, Intellectual Labour and Student Evaluations of Courses and Teaching (Magda Lewis); Can Femininist Voices and Still Survive and Transform the Academy? (Ava McCall); Deconstructing Femininist Pedagogy: Seeing That Which Is Ordinarily Obscured by the Familiar (Janice Jipson and Petra Munro); Asian Women Leaders in Higher Education: Stories of Strength and Self-Discovery (Lori Ideta and Joanne Cooper); Dancing on the Sharp Edge of the Sword: Women Faculty of Color in Academe (Frances Rains); Negotiating Daily Life in the Academy and at Home (Jean I. Erdman); Feeling Blue, Seeing Red and Turning Fifty: Moving in from the Margins (Sue Middleton); Against the Grain: Reflections on the Construction of Everyday Knowledge and Uncommon Truths (Linda K. Christian-Smith and Kristine S. Kellor)
About the author
Linda Christian-Smith (Author) , Kristine Kellor (Author)
Summary
Everyday Knowledge and Uncommon Truths: Women of the Academy is a thirteen chapter volume which draws on the life experience and varied backgrounds of academic women from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The book addresses a variety of issues pertaining to women?s home lives, education, teaching, research, writing, and activism.
