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Women's Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition
352 Pages
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Routledge
356 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume explores how women in the fields of rhetoric and composition have succeeded, despite the challenges inherent in the circumstances of their work. Focusing on those women generally viewed as "successful" in rhetoric and composition, this volume relates their stories of successes (and failures) to serve as models for other women in the profession who aspire to "make it," too: to succeed... Read more
Preface v Introduction 1 Section I: Becoming a Professional Chapter I: Succeeding as a Graduate Student 28 Chapter II: Succeeding on the Job Market 83 Essential Resources 115 Section II: Thriving as a Professional Chapter III: Succeeding as a Junior Professor 119 Chapter IV: Succeeding Despite it All: Administration, Politics, and Difficult People 171 Chapter V: Succeeding as a Senior Scholar, Teacher, and Mentor 198 Essential Resources 230 Section III: And Having a Life, Too Chapter VI: Searching for Well-Being: Strategies for Living 234 Chapter VII: Creating a Life Within/Beyond Work: Family and Academic Culture 258 Essential Resources 291 Section IV: Being a Professional: Profiles of Success Chapter VIII: Patricia Bizzell 295 Chapter IX: Sharon Crowley 323 Chapter X: Cheryl Glenn 348 Chapter XI: Susan C. Jarratt 373 Chapter XII: Shirley Wilson Logan 388 Chapter XIII: Andrea A. Lunsford 404 Chapter XIV: Jacqueline Jones Royster 422 Chapter XV: Cynthia L. Selfe 443 Chapter XVI: Lynn Worsham 460 Section V: Appendices Appendix I: Questionnaire for Survey of Women in Rhetoric and Composition 485 Appendix II: Quantitative Data Collected from Survey 488 Works Cited 490
Biography
Michelle Ballif (PhD University of Texas at Arlington) is associate professor of English at the University of Georgia. D. Diane Davis (PhD University of Texas at Arlington) is associate professor of rhetoric and English at the University of Texas at Austin. Roxanne Mountford (PhD Ohio State University) is associate professor of English at the University of Arizona.
This book's unique contributions are, first, the fact that it is a sustained study of women in rhetoric and composition using survey and interview methods; second, the authors' inclusion of several in-depth profiles of successful women in the field based on interviews with these women; and third, its chapter about ways to succeed as a senior faculty member and scholar. --Clancy Ratliff, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
