"A Woman out of Control": Deconstructing Sexism and Racism in the University

Aren't You Satisfied Yet? Women Faculty Members' Interpretations of Their Academic Work

“…For example, women struggle with pressure to be academic mommies, taking care of graduate students and other departmental housekeeping functions (Griffin, 1992;Jipson, 1995;Park, 1996;Thorne and Hochschild, 1997). They often receive evaluations of their teaching that encompass a wide range of physical attributes and clothing styles, in addition to questions of competence (Griffin, 1992;Ng, 1997). They experience differential treatment from their students, being called by their first names while male faculty are addressed as "Doctor" and struggling with the familiarity, hierarchy, and sexism that this implies (Collison, 1999;Griffin, 1992).…”

Changing the frame: queering access to higher education for trans* students

“…As Meiners (1998) noted, queer theories can be employed to ask whose mobility is facilitated and whose is fixed. Taking a cue also from feminist theorists' assertions that higher education must itself be transformed in order to be truly inclusive of marginalized populations (Collins, 2000, Chapter 11;Ng, 1993;Rich, 1973), evidence of genderism (Hill & Willoughby, 2005) in everyday educational practices is revealed. Strategies for increasing trans* college access are advanced as remedies for these inhibitors, in order to begin changing the frame from 'how can trans* students be successful in college?'…”

The Dialectics of Praxis

“…Her attempts to revolutionize learning were drawn from and in opposition to the easy options to simply reform such as a space. In other words, she knew that she could not theorize a revolutionary space without a deep understanding of its contradictions and its propensities towards reproducing racialized patriarchal capitalist social relations (Ng, 1993).…”