Breaking into the All-Male Club: Female Professors of Educational Administration

by Mertz, Norma T.

• ISBN13: 9781438424965
• ISBN10: 1438424965
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-05
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Women professors of educational administration share their personal stories of being female firsts.

Author Biography

Norma T. Mertz is Professor of Higher Education Administration at the University of Tennessee and coeditor (with Vincent A. Anfara Jr.) of Theoretical Frameworks in Qualitative Research.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Framing the Stories	p. 1
A First Woman with Clout	p. 13
Breaking Through	p. 27
Nothing Except a Battle Lost Can Be Half So Melancholy as a Battle Won: A Fight for Tenure	p. 37
Traversing the Fault Line	p. 51
Where the Boys Were... With Apologies to Connie Francis	p. 67
Goodness of Fit	p. 79
First Ladies in the Academy	p. 91
From School Administrator to University Professor	p. 103
The "Accidental" Professor	p. 115
Resistance and Determination: Faculty Experiences of a Women Religious	p. 125
From the Bush to the Ivory Tower	p. 141
One Woman's Struggle to Include and Be Included	p. 155
Being First: Stories of Social Complexities	p. 167
My Life as a Trophy	p. 175
Making Meaning of the Stories	p. 187
Unfinished, Uncertain Chronology of Women's Entry into the All-Male Educational Administration Professoriate	p. 199
Contributors	p. 201
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