Women of Academe

Outsiders in the Sacred Grove

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by Nadya Aisenberg and Mona Harrington

University of Massachusetts Press

Due/Published October 1990, 207 pages, paper

ISBN 0870236075

Drawing on more than sixty interviews, this book examines women's struggle to gain authority in the academic profession and to use the at authority to change conventional practices. The authors argue that as women rise in academe, they are stymied at a certain level by the remaining force of the old norms which in the past barred women from professional life altogether.