Susan Gubar reflects on her career as a woman scholar and queries in what ways women’s roles in English departments, and in academia, have evolved over the last few decades.

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Examines the dilemmas of mid-career feminist professors, including: escalating demands on their time; pressures of work and family; high casualty rates among women hired; friction between generations and among feminists; and doubts about what professionalism means to the collective participants in the feminist venture. Discusses strains of this paradoxical combination of privilege and powerlessness for senior women within male-dominated institutions.

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