The Madwoman
in the Academy
43 Women Boldly Take on the Ivory Tower
Edited by
Deborah Keahey and Deborah Schnitzer
$24.95 sc
March 2003
1-55238-081-5
250 pp.
8" x 8"
1 illustration
About the Book
A dynamic and eclectic collection of life writing, this book offers an original and highly subversive critique of the academy’s relationship to its female members. In this powerful and engaging volume, the authors touch on topics well-known to women working in academia around the world: the clash between family and work, the politics of academe, and the contradiction between an academic career and political activism.
The Madwoman in the Academy offers writings by women affiliated
with universities and colleges across Canada in a wide range of genres
— personal essays, poetry, short stories, dialogues, and other innovative
formats — which dare to confront their experiences with energy, insight,
wit, humour, and compassion. Contributors range from graduate students
to retired professors, and from first-time authors to well-known literary
names, such as Kristjana Gunnars and Aritha van Herk.
The first book of its kind to focus primarily on Canadian women, The
Madwoman in the Academy is sure to take readers on a ride that will
forever change their ideas about the relationship between women and the
academy.
About the Editors
Deborah Keahey is the author of Making it Home: Place in Canadian Literature
and waking blood: poems. She currently teaches online English courses
for the University of Winnipeg from her home in Prince George, BC.
Deborah Schnitzer is the author of The Pictorial in Modernist Fiction
and a book of poetry, Black Beyond Blue, as well as the co-editor
of Uncommon Wealth: An Anthology of Poetry in English. She teaches
English literature at the University of Winnipeg.
Contributors
Daisy Beharry, Aparita Bhandari, D.M. Blais, Susan Braley, Jane Cahill, Taina Chahal, Méira Cook, Nathalie Cooke, Tammy Dewar, Mary Ellen Donnan, Keith Louise Fulton, Jill Watson Graham, Fiona Joy Green, Kristjana Gunnars, Vivian Hansen, Monika Hilder, Dee Horne, Nisha Karumanchery-Luik, Delores Keahey, Jennifer Kelly, Donna Langevin, Monika Lee, Jeanette Lynes, Tanis MacDonald, Ranjini Mendis, Mary Monks, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Ruth Panofsky, Uma Parameswaran, Susan Philips, Joan Marie Pillipow, Helen Ramirez, Kate Rogers, Sharon Russell, Margaret Shaw-MacKinnon, Carolynn Smallwood, Aruna Srivastava, Kay Stone, C. Celeste Sulliman, Aritha van Herk, and Randi R. Warne.
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