Gender and the Academic Experience

by Meadow-Orlans, Kathryn P.; Wallace, Ruth A.

• ISBN13: 9780803286061
• ISBN10: 0803286066
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

"These memoirs provide new and thoughtful evidence that pioneers are necessarily diverse, illuminating two crucial decades of dawning self understanding for women, for America, for the discipline of sociology."--Mary Catherine Bateson, author ofComposing a LifeIt is difficult to imagine an intellectual world with only a few--if any--women scholars and sociologists. But that was the case, nor so long ago, for women such as Arlene Kaplan Daniels, Dorothy Smith, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Jacqueline Wiseman, and Lillian Rubin. These and many other now-eminent women in sociology began their careers as graduate students at Berkeley; they tell their stories in this volume, which spans two decades beginning with the first woman graduate student in 1952. With Berkeley as the backdrop, each woman constructs a personal memoir of her educational experience in a department and a profession then dominated by men.In this thought-provoking book, sixteen women describe their marginal status and how their struggles informed their studies and their later work. Though each woman's story is unique, common themes surface: mixed feelings of intellectual self-confidence and inadequacy, difficulties in integrating personal and professional worlds, a net humor that both masked and helped the women cope with their hardships.These compelling essays tell how these women creatively met the challenges and obstacles of our gendered society, conducted their lives intrepidly, and left a clearer path for those who followed.Gender and the Academic Experienceillustrates that times are changing: by 1991, women made up the majority of graduate students in the Berkeley sociology department.Kathryn P. Meadow Orlans is a senior research scientist and professor in the Department of Educational Foundations and Research at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. She helped pioneer a program of research and mental health services for deaf people, and her inventories for teachers of deaf children have been translated into eight languages. She has publishedDeafness and Child Development and co-authored Sound and Sign: Childhood Deafness and Mental Health.

Author Biography

Ruth A. Wallace is a professor of sociology at George Washington University, where she has taught since 1970. She has written They Call Her Pastor: A New Role for Catholic Women and co-authored Gender in America: Social Control and Social Change.

Table of Contents

Berkeley Women Sociologists	p. ii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Note	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Varieties of Sociological Experience	p. 11
Notes	p. 24
When We Were All Boys Together: Graduate School in the Fifties and Beyond	p. 27
a Berkeley Education	p. 45
Notes	p. 56
Becoming an Ethnographer	p. 57
Gold and Blue in California	p. 71
Indonesian Odyssey: Jakarta, Cornell, Berkeley, Jakarta	p. 85
Transformation from Sacred to Secular	p. 99
Multiple Roles, Multiple Selves: SHIRLEY FOSTER HARTLEY	p. 113
Inside the Clockwork of Male Careers	p. 125
the Personal is Political and Professional	p. 141
on the Way to the Forum	p. 157
a Sociological Venture	p. 173
New Perspectives, New Freedoms	p. 183
Accidental Tourist	p. 201
Running Between the Raindrops: from the Margin to the Mainstream	p. 219
an Unanticipated Life	p. 229
Epilogue	p. 249
Notes	p. 251
The: Contributors	p. 253
Index	p. 259
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