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Better Red is an interdisciplinary study addressing the complicated intersection of American feminism and the political left as refracted in Tillie Olsen's and Meridel Le Sueur's lives and literary texts. The first book-length study to explore these feminist writers' ties to the American Communist Party, it contributes to a reenvisioning of 1930s U.S. Communism as well as to efforts to promote working-class writing as a legitimate category of literary analysis. At once loyal members of the male-dominated Communist party and emerging feminists, Olsen and Le Sueur exhibit in their writing tendencies both toward and away from Party tenets and attitudes--at points subverting formalist as well as orthodox Marxist literary categories. By producing working-class discourse, Olsen and Le Sueur challenge the bourgeois assumptions--often masked as classless and universal--of much canonical literature; and by creating working-class women's writing, they problematize the patriarchal nature of the Left and the masculinist assumptions of much proletarian literature, anticipating the concerns of "second wave" feminists a generation later.
Family Track
Keeping Your Faculties While You Mentor, Nurture, Teach, and Serve
Häftad, Engelska, 1998
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How do the necessities of caring for others deter, benefit, or redefineresearch and teaching in higher education? What have universities doneto recognize the difficulties facing academic parents, single mothersand fathers, graduate students, lesbian and gay couples? What pro-familypolicies can be enacted during institutional budget crises?At a time when the academy is an ever more demanding arbiter and shaperof the lives of those it employs, The Family Track: Keeping Your Faculties While You Mentor, Nurture, Teach, and Serve discusses the challengesand benefits of balancing a rewarding professional life with the competingneeds to nurture children, care for aging parents, and engage in otherpersonal relationships. Here academic women and men explore issues thatinclude biological and tenure clocks, childcare and eldercare, surrogateparenting of students, and increasing job demands. In telling storiesabout the quality of their lives, they express their hopes, anxieties,difficulties, and personal strategies for maintaining a delicate but achievablebalance."Lively, well-written, useful, and persuasive
The Family Track reveals much on family roles within the academy and suggestsmany specific projects and guidelines for Institutional change."-- Judith Kegan Gardiner, editor of Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency in Theory and Practice