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Divisions Among Us: Women Administrators, Faculty, and Staff on the Complicated Realities of Support and Sisterhood

  • Annemarie Vaccaro
Published/Copyright: February 24, 2011
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Although Robin Morgan argued that sisterhood is powerful (1970) and forever (2003), results from this case study show that sisterhood is not easily achieved, even in women’s groups in which support for women was a formal goal. Narratives of eight women faculty, middle managers, and top administrators reveal that organizational sexism and women’s differing standpoints made sisterhood at one midsized university difficult to achieve.

Published Online: 2011-2-24

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