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Living When Everything Changed
My Life in Academia
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Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault
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English
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2019
About this book
Entering the academy at the dawn of the women’s rights movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the first generation of feminist academics had a difficult journey. With few female role models, they had to forge their own path and prove that feminist scholarship was a legitimate enterprise. Later, when many of these scholars moved into administrative positions, hoping to reform the university system from within, they encountered entrenched hierarchies, bureaucracies, and old boys’ networks that made it difficult to put their feminist principles into practice.
In this compelling memoir, Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault describes how a Catholic girl from small-town Nebraska discovered her callings as a feminist, as an academic, and as a university administrator. She recounts her experiences at three very different schools: the small progressive Lewis & Clark College, the massive regional university of Cal State Fullerton, and the rapidly expanding Portland State University. Reflecting on both her accomplishments and challenges, she considers just how much second-wave feminism has transformed academia and how much reform is still needed.
With remarkable candor and compassion, Thompson Tetreault provides an intimate personal look at an era when both women’s lives and university culture changed for good.
The Acknowledgments were inadvertently left out of the first printing of this book. We apologize for the oversight, and offer them here instead. Future printings will include this information. (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/29185420/Thompson-Tetreault-Acknowledgments.pdf)
In this compelling memoir, Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault describes how a Catholic girl from small-town Nebraska discovered her callings as a feminist, as an academic, and as a university administrator. She recounts her experiences at three very different schools: the small progressive Lewis & Clark College, the massive regional university of Cal State Fullerton, and the rapidly expanding Portland State University. Reflecting on both her accomplishments and challenges, she considers just how much second-wave feminism has transformed academia and how much reform is still needed.
With remarkable candor and compassion, Thompson Tetreault provides an intimate personal look at an era when both women’s lives and university culture changed for good.
The Acknowledgments were inadvertently left out of the first printing of this book. We apologize for the oversight, and offer them here instead. Future printings will include this information. (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/29185420/Thompson-Tetreault-Acknowledgments.pdf)
Author / Editor information
Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault is provost emerita at Portland State University in Oregon. She is also the author or coauthor of several books, including The Feminist Classroom: Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Privilege.
Reviews
“Living When Everything Changed is a remarkably candid account of an academic and administrative career filled with both successes and failures. While it offers a sometimes-painful picture of academic conflicts, paralysis, and betrayals, over the course of her career Tetreault and her colleagues grappled with many of the most important issues in higher education over several decades. In this sense it is surely true that Tetreault’s career (including her preparation for her career) took place in “interesting times,” and this volume offers readers a rare glimpse of the complicated mix of motivations, personalities, values and ideologies that animated both challenges to the status quo and resistance to those challenges.”
— Abigail J. Stewart, co-author of An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence“This is one of the bravest books about the long trajectory of leadership in higher education that I have read in a long time. Tetreault takes us on both a personal and professional journey through her triumphs and tribulations as she balances essentially three worlds every day; that of administrator and leader, academic, and wife and mother."
— Yolanda Moses, co-author of How Real is Race: A Sourcebook on Race, Culture and Biology
— Chronicle of Higher Education
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Contents
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Preface
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1. My Life as a Professor Begins
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2. Going Home and Leaving Home
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3. Nestled in the Bosom of Catholicism
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4. Wandering in the Wilderness
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5. Finding Love and Work
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6. Becoming the Men We Wanted to Marry
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7. My Lewis and Clark Chapter Concludes
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8. A Deanery of My Own
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9. Second Chance to Be a Provost
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10. Opportunities and Ambition Overshadowed by Ambivalence
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11. Shifting My Gaze Forward
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12. Among the Most Interesting Provost’s Positions in the Country
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13. A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far
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Notes
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Index
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October 8, 2019
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9780813594941
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Keywords for this book
Feminism; Women's Rights Movement; Late1960s; Early 1970s; First generations of feminism academics; feminist scholarship; Reformation of university system; entrenched hierarchies and bureaucracies; Feminist Principles; Lewis & Clark College; Cal State Fullerton; Portland State University; Second-wave feminism
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For a non-specialist adult audience
