Erotic mentoring women's transformations in the university
They're everywhere in the academy: young, bright women mentored by older scholars, usually men, who attempt to mold them into their own masculine ideals. Janice Hocker Rushing's study of over 200 women and their life transformations is the subject of this eloquent book. Using the tropes of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Walnut Creek, Calif. :
Left Coast Press
c2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Writing lives--ethnographic narratives.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009797955606719 |
| Summary: | They're everywhere in the academy: young, bright women mentored by older scholars, usually men, who attempt to mold them into their own masculine ideals. Janice Hocker Rushing's study of over 200 women and their life transformations is the subject of this eloquent book. Using the tropes of mythology and Jungian psychology, the author characterizes the many paths these women's academic lives take: as Muse for a faltering older scholar, as Mistress or wife, as the dutiful academic daughter. Their resistance to this power differential also takes many forms: as a Veiled Woman, silent in public but |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-299) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781315429496 9781315429472 9781598747997 |
