Surviving the Academy

Danusia Malina Danusia is a senior lecturer in organisational development and behaviour at the University of Teesside. She has published on academic mothers, cross-cultural research methodology, human resource management and most recently on services marketing issues in women-only sex shops. Her abiding passions are her beloved soldier, their five kids, and her fast car as her chariot of escape. Sian Maslin-Prothero Sian is a lecturer in the Postgraduate Division of Nursing at the University of Nottingham. She has written about nursing, social policy and learning. Prior to the world of higher education she had worked as a nurse and midwife in the National Health Service and the Australian outback. Her pleasures are family, gardening, food, wine and laughter.

Introduction Section I Power: Challenging Care in Higher Education 2 Women in Higher Education: The Gap between Corporate Rhetoric and the Reality of Experience 3 From Earthquake Zone to Firm Ground: Challenging the Ideology of Heterosexism in Health and Social Work 4 Surviving the Institution: Working as a Visually Disabled Lecturer in Higher Education Women, Social Work and Academia Section II Maternalism in the Academy 5 Mixing Motherhood and Academia - A Lethal Cocktail 6 ‘All in a Day’s Work’: Gendered Care Work in Higher Education 7 Refusing to be Typecast: The Changing Secretarial Role in Higher Education Administration 8 Incorporation or Alienation? Resisting the Gendered Discourses of Academic Appraisal Section III Collective Action: Standing Still or Moving Forward? 9 Creating Space: The Development of a Feminist Research Group 10 Women and Collective Action: The Role of the Trade Union in Academic Life 11 Who Goes There, Friend or Foe? Black Women, White Women and Friendships in Academia 12 Uneven Developments - Women’s Studies in Higher Education in the 1990s 13 Coming Clean: On Being Feminist Editors