Over Ten Million Served : Gendered Service in Language and Literature Workplaces

by Masse, Michelle A.; Hogan, Katie J.

• ISBN13: 9781438432021
• ISBN10: 143843202X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

First book on gender and academic service.

Author Biography

Michelle A. Mass is Professor of English and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University. She is the author of In the Name of Love: Women, Masochism, and the Gothic. Katie J. Hogan is Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at Carlow University. She is the author of Women Take Care: Gender, Race, and the Culture of AIDS and Coeditor (with Nancy L. Roth) of Gendered Epidemic: Representations of Women in the Age of AIDS.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Service Stations
Careers in Academe: Women in the "Pre-Feminist" Generation in the Academy	p. 23
Superserviceable Subordinates, Universal Access, and Prestige-Driven Research	p. 35
Superserviceable Feminism	p. 55
The Invisible Work of the Not-Quite-Administrator, or, Superserviceable Rhetoric and Composition	p. 73
Foreign Language Program Direction: Reflections on Workload, Service, and Feminization of the Profession	p. 89
Ten Million Serving: Undergraduate Labor, the Final Frontier	p. 103
Non Serviam: Out of Service
The Value of Desire: On Claiming Professional Service	p. 123
Outreach: Considering Community Service and the Role of Women of Color Faculty in Diversifying University Membership	p. 139
To Serve or Not to Serve: Nobler Question	p. 153
Not in Service	p. 163
Experience Required: Service, Relevance, and the Scholarship of Application	p. 171
Humble Service	p. 185
Welcome to the Land of Super-Service: A Survivor's Guide ... and Some Questions	p. 195
Service Changes
Service and Empowerment	p. 211
The Hermeneutics of Service	p. 219
Rewarding Work: Integrating Service into an Institutional Framework on Faculty Roles and Rewards	p. 231
Curb Service or Public Scholarship To Go	p. 245
"Pearl was shittin' worms and I was supposed to play rang-around-the-rosie?": An African American Woman's Response to the Politics of Labor	p. 261
Selected Bibliography	p. 275
List of Contributors	p. 281
Index	p. 287
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