Ordinary Heroines: Transforming the Male Myth

Aisenberg, Nadya

Literature & Fiction

Continuum Intl Pub Group

Women of Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove

Book by Aisenberg, Nadya, Harrington, Mona

Women of academe: Outsiders in the sacred grove

Harrington, Mona

University of Massachusetts Press

Drawing on more than sixty interviews, this book examines women's struggle to gain authority in the academic profession and to use that authority to change conventional practices. The authors argue that as women rise in academe, they are stymied at a certain level by the remaining force of the old norms which in the past barred women from professional life altogether. These norms decreed a sharp division between public and private realms, assigning men to public duties, women to private, men to intellectual pursuits, women to emotional and relational ones. Although the strict division of roles is eroding, prejudices about women's "lesser" intellectual power still operate, subtly but effectively, through a two-tiered system of responsibility. The top tier exercises the real authority and consists almost exclusively of men. The bottom tier carries out supportive functions and consists of some men and nearly all the profession's women, who also carry the major burden of private and familial responsibilities. Making excellent use of interviews, the authors explore in vivid detail how this two-tiered system works and the variety of ways in which academic women have responded to "the rules of the game."

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

The justice worm (Chapbook series)

Rowan Tree Press

Explores the world's siege against both our frail private structures and our gods. Among the themes...is a heightened consciousness of our human condition, hanging by a thread between heaven and hell, between hope and disaster...A poet with a keen intelligence and philosophic vision.--Sojourner. ""Aisenberg is...consistently wise to what she is doing, and, for that matter, at this point in history, what everyone else is doing""--TLS. ""Her poems please the ear...For large under-graduate collections""--Choice.

Before We Were Strangers

Poetry

Forest Books

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