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Description
An original and highly subversive critique of the academy by women affiliated with universities and colleges across Canada, The Madwoman in the Academy:Women Boldly Take on the Ivory Tower explores topics familiar to women working in academia around the world: the clash between family and work, the politics of academe, and the rifts between an academic career and political activism. Contributors offer writings in a wide range of genres, including personal essays, poetry, short stories, dialogues, and other innovative formats, daring to confront their experiences with energy, anger, wit, and humour.
Ranging from the playful to the painful, The Madwoman in the Academy brings you names well known to literary communities alongside new but feisty voices that will forever change readers' ideas about the relationship between women and the academy.
Contributor Notes
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. Contributor to another significant collection of women's writing, Dropped Threads, she teaches English literature at the University of Winnipeg.
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.
With Contributions By: Daisy Beharry, Aparita Bhandari, Denise M. Blais, Susan Braley, Jane Cahill, Tiana Chahal, Meira Cook, Nathalie Cooke, Tammy Deway, Mary Ellen Donnan, Keith Louise Fulton, Fiona Joy Greene, Kristjana Gunnars, Vivian Hansen, Monika B. Hilder, Dee Horne, Nisha Karumanchery-Luik, Deborah Keahey, Deolores Keahey, Jennifer Kelly, Donna Langevin, Monika Lee, Jeanette Lynes, Tanis MacDonald, Ranjini Mendis, Mary Monks, Lorri Nielsen Glenn, Ruth Panofsky, Uma Parameswaran, Susan Phillips, Joan Pillipow, Helen Ramirez, Kate Rogers, Sharon Russell, Deborah Schnitzer, Margaret Shaw-MacKinnon, Carolynn Smallwood, Aruna Srivastava, Kay Stone, C. Celeste Suliman, Aritha van Herk, Randi R. Warne, and Jill Watson Graham
Awards
- Winner, Alberta Book Awards, Best Scholarly Book (Book Publishers Association of Alberta)
