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It’s harder to work when it’s not fitting into one’s discipline in a particular way. You can’t expect to get clear judgements and rewards, although you’ll get different opinions about it… The problem is the people who could judge it are out there and not in here in my department and my discipline.
A draft of this manuscript benefitted from comments by Yvonna Lincoln, Gary Rhoades, Karen Sacks, Sheila Slaughter, Ann Swidler and William Tierney.
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Gumport, P.J. (1991). Feminist scholarship as a vocation. In: Kelly, G.P., Slaughter, S. (eds) Women’s Higher Education in Comparative Perspective. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3816-1_18
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