Erotic Mentoring - Women's Transformations in the University (Paperback)

They're everywhere in the academy: young, bright women mentored by older scholars, usually men, who attempt to mold them into their own masculine ideals. Janice Hocker Rushing's study of over 200 women and their life transformations is the subject of this eloquent book. Using the tropes of mythology and Jungian psychology, the author characterizes the many paths these women's academic lives take: as Muse for a faltering older scholar, as Mistress or wife, as the dutiful academic daughter. Their resistance to this power differential also takes many forms: as a Veiled Woman, silent in public but active in private, or the Siren, using her sexuality to beat the system. Ultimately, Rushing arrives at the myth of Eros and Psyche, where women's self understanding and personal development turns her erotic mentoring into an autonomous, whole, and free life, unfettered by any man. These women's stories and Rushing's literary and literate framing of their lives will ring true to many in the university.

General

Imprint:	Left Coast Press Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
Release date:	December 2005
First published:	2006
Authors:	Janice Hocker Rushing
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	326
ISBN-13:	978-1-59874-027-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Colleges of higher education Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Universities / polytechnics Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	1-59874-027-X
Barcode:	9781598740271

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