ISBN: 0867094346 9780867094343

Category: Education / General

Page count: 158

Drawing on feminist theory, institutional histories of writing and English, sociological and statistical studies of part-time and nontenure-track academic employment, and interviews with women writing faculty, she examines the historical and contemporary forces that have assisted the rise of a class of women writing faculty. Schell also frames the problem of gender and contingent writing instruction against the larger backdrop of recent debates over graduate education, the academic job market, the tenure system, and the corporatization of higher education.