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Mentors and Tormentors
- NWSA Journal
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 19, Number 3, Fall 2007
- pp. 182-189
- 10.1353/ff.2007.a224743
- Article
- Additional Information
Reflecting on the legacy of the late Carolyn Heilbrun, and on her own experience as director of Women's Studies at a small liberal arts college, a forty-something feminist academic asks, what did my generation learn about mentoring from the women's studies pioneers who taught us? And what could we do better? Self-awareness, abstinence, and a healthy sense of irony may help.