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Informationen zum Autor Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault is provost emerita at Portland State University in Oregon. She is also the author or coauthor of several books, including The Feminist Classroom: Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Privilege . Klappentext Entering the academy at the dawn of the women's rights movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the first generation of feminist academics had a difficult journey. With few female role models, they had to forge their own path and prove that feminist scholarship was a legitimate enterprise. Later, when many of these scholars moved into administrative positions, hoping to reform the university system from within, they encountered entrenched hierarchies, bureaucracies, and old boys' networks that made it difficult to put their feminist principles into practice. In this compelling memoir, Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault describes how a Catholic girl from small-town Nebraska discovered her callings as a feminist, as an academic, and as a university administrator. She recounts her experiences at three very different schools: the small progressive Lewis & Clark College, the massive regional university of Cal State Fullerton, and the rapidly expanding Portland State University. Reflecting on both her accomplishments and challenges, she considers just how much second-wave feminism has transformed academia and how much reform is still needed. With remarkable candor and compassion, Thompson Tetreault provides an intimate personal look at an era when both women's lives and university culture changed for good. The Acknowledgments were inadvertently left out of the first printing of this book. We apologize for the oversight, and offer them here instead. Future printings will include this information. (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/29185420/Thompson-Tetreault-Acknowledgments.pdf) Zusammenfassung In this memoir, Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault describes how a Catholic girl from Nebraska discovered her callings as a feminist, as an academic, and as a university administrator. Reflecting on both her accomplishments and challenges, she considers just how much second-wave feminism has transformed academia and how much reform is still needed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Preface Chapter One: My Life as a Professor Begins Chapter Two: Going Home and Leaving Home Chapter Three: Nestled in the Bosom of Catholicism Chapter Four: Wandering in the Wilderness Chapter Five: Finding Love and Work Chapter Six: Becoming the Men We Wanted to Marry Chapter Seven: My Lewis and Clark Chapter Concludes Chapter Eight: A Deanery of My Own Chapter Nine: Second Chance to Be a Provost Chapter Ten: Opportunity and Ambition Overshadowed by Ambivalence Chapter Eleven: Shifting My Gaze Forward Chapter Twelve: Among the Most Interesting Provost's Position in the Country Chapter Thirteen: A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far ...
