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- Over Ten Million Served: Gendered Service in Language and Literature Workplaces
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
summary
First book on gender and academic service. All tenured and tenure-track faculy know the trinity of promotion and tenure criteria: research, teaching, and service. While teaching and research are relatively well defined areas of institutional focus and evaluation, service work is rarely tabulated or analyzed as a key aspect of higher education’s political economy. Instead, service, silent and invisible, coexists with the formal “official” economy of many institutions, just as women’s unrecognized domestic labor props up the formal, official economies of countries the world over. Over Ten Million Served explores what academic service is and investigates why this labor is often not acknowledged as “labor” by administrators or even by faculty themselves, but is instead relegated to a gendered form of institutional caregiving. By analyzing the actual labor of service, particularly for women and racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities, contributors expose the hidden economy of institutional service, challenging the feminization of service labor in the academy for both female and male academic laborers.
Table of Contents
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- Over Ten Million Served
- p. iii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- Part 1: Service Stations
- 3: Superserviceable Feminism
- pp. 55-72
- Part 2: Non Serviam: Out of Service
- 9: To Serve or Not to Serve: Nobler Question
- pp. 153-161
- 10: Not in Service
- pp. 163-170
- 12: Humble Service
- pp. 185-194
- Part 3: Service Changes
- 14: Service and Empowerment
- pp. 211-218
- 15: The Hermeneutics of Service
- pp. 219-229
- 17: Curb Service or Public Scholarship To Go
- pp. 245-260
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 275-279
- Contributors
- pp. 281-285
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438432045
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
658062311
Pages
312
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No