Full Description
First book on gender and academic service.
All tenured and tenure-track faculy know the trinity of promotion and tenure criteria: research, teaching, and service. While teaching and research are relatively well defined areas of institutional focus and evaluation, service work is rarely tabulated or analyzed as a key aspect of higher education's political economy. Instead, service, silent and invisible, coexists with the formal "official" economy of many institutions, just as women's unrecognized domestic labor props up the formal, official economies of countries the world over. Over Ten Million Served explores what academic service is and investigates why this labor is often not acknowledged as "labor" by administrators or even by faculty themselves, but is instead relegated to a gendered form of institutional caregiving. By analyzing the actual labor of service, particularly for women and racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities, contributors expose the hidden economy of institutional service, challenging the feminization of service labor in the academy for both female and male academic laborers.
Contents
Introduction
Katie J. Hogan and Michelle A. Massé
Part 1: Service Stations
1. Careers in Academe: Women in the "Pre-Feminist" Generation in the Academy
Mary Burgan
2. Superserviceable Subordinates, Universal Access, and Prestige-Driven Research
Sharon O'Dair
3. Superserviceable Feminism
Katie J. Hogan
4. The Invisible Work of the Not-Quite-Administrator, or, Superserviceable Rhetoric and Composition
Donna Strickland
5. Foreign Language Program Direction: Reflections on Workload, Service, and Feminization of the Profession
Colleen Ryan-Scheutz
6. Ten Million Serving: Undergraduate Labor, the Final Frontier
Marc Bousquet
Part 2: Non Serviam: Out of Service
7. The Value of Desire: On Claiming Professional Service 123
Kirsten M. Christensen
8. Outreach: Considering Community Service and the Role of Women of Color Faculty in Diversifying University Membership
Myriam J. A. Chancy
9. To Serve or Not to Serve: Nobler Question
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
10. Not in Service
Paula M. Krebs
11. Experience Required: Service, Relevance, and the Scholarship of Application
Andrea Adolph
12. Humble Service
Margaret Kent Bass
13. Welcome to the Land of Super-Service: A Survivor's Guide... and Some Questions
Phyllis van Slyck
Part 3: Service Changes
14. Service and Empowerment
Patricia Meyer Spacks
15. The Hermeneutics of Service
Donald E. Hall
16. Rewarding Work: Integrating Service into an Institutional Framework on Faculty Roles and Rewards
Jeanette Clausen
17. Curb Service or Public Scholarship To Go
Teresa Mangum
18. "Pearl was shittin' worms and I was supposed to play rang-around-the-rosie?": An African American Woman's Response to the Politics of Labor
Valerie Lee
Selected Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
