Over Ten Million Served: Gendered Service in Language and Literature Workplaces

314 Pages·2010·1.566 MB·

by  Michelle A. Massé and Katie J. Hogan

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All tenured and tenure-track faculty know the trinity of promotion and tenure criteria: É

research, teaching, and service. While teaching and research are relatively well-defi ned A
areas of institutional focus and evaluation, service work is rarely tabulated or analyzed N
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as a key aspect of higher education’s political economy. Instead, service, silent and
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invisible, coexists with the formal, “offi cial” economy of many institutions, just as women’s
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unrecognized domestic labor props up the formal, offi cial economies of countries the world G
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over. Over Ten Million Served explores what academic service is and investigates why this A
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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.
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“Over Ten Million Served is an ambitious attempt to reconceive service and its place in the SERVED
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academic workplace. It has a moral seriousness and a topicality that make it an effort that
really can’t be ignored. It’s a book whose time has come.” E
— Bruce Robbins, author of Upward Mobility and the Common Good: R
Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State
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“This collection performs important intellectual work in analyzing a truth almost universally E
unacknowledged: that service in the academy upholds an economy crucial to, but not N
often credited by, the institutions that benefi t from it. In discussing the ‘genderization’ of

service, Massé, Hogan, and their collaborators shed light on the invisible labor performed M
in and for the academy.”
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— Karen R. Lawrence, President, Sarah Lawrence University
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MICHELLE A. MASSÉ is Professor of English and Director of Women’s and Gender I
Studies at Louisiana State University. She is the author of In the Name of Love: Women, O
Masochism, and the Gothic. KATIE J. HOGAN is Professor of English and Director of
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Women’s Studies at Carlow University. She is the author of Women Take Care: Gender,
Race, and the Culture of AIDS and coeditor (with Nancy L. Roth) of Gendered Epidemic:
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Representations of Women in the Age of AIDS.
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A volume in the SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
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Michelle A. Massé, editor
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Over Ten Million Served
Gendered Service in
Language and Literature Workplaces
Edited by
Michelle A. Massé
and
Katie J. Hogan
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Over ten million served : gendered service in language and literature workplaces /
edited by Michelle A. Massé and Katie J. Hogan.
p. cm. — (SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4384-3203-8 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4384-3202-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Women college teachers—Professional relationships—United States.
2. Women college teachers—Workload—United States. 3. Feminism and higher
education—United States. 4. Sex discrimination in higher education—United
States. I. Massé, Michelle A. (Michelle Annette), 1951– II. Hogan, Katie,
1960–
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For James Catano and Paula Martinac
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Katie J. Hogan and Michelle A. Massé
PART 1
Service Stations
1 Careers in Academe: Women in the “Pre-Feminist”
Generation in the Academy 23
Mary Burgan
2 Superserviceable Subordinates, Universal Access, and
Prestige-Driven Research 35
Sharon O’Dair
3 Superserviceable Feminism 55
Katie J. Hogan
4 The Invisible Work of the Not-Quite-Administrator, or,
Superserviceable Rhetoric and Composition 73
Donna Strickland
5 Foreign Language Program Direction: Refl ections on
Workload, Service, and Feminization of the Profession 89
Colleen Ryan-Scheutz
6 Ten Million Serving: Undergraduate Labor, the Final Frontier 103
Marc Bousquet
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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 139
Myriam J. A. Chancy
9 To Serve or Not to Serve: Nobler Question 153
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
10 Not in Service 163
Paula M. Krebs
11 Experience Required: Service, Relevance, and the
Scholarship of Application 171
Andrea Adolph
12 Humble Service 185
Margaret Kent Bass
13 Welcome to the Land of Super-Service:
A Survivor’s Guide . . . and Some Questions 195
Phyllis van Slyck
PART 3
Service Changes
14 Service and Empowerment 211
Patricia Meyer Spacks
15 The Hermeneutics of Service 219
Donald E. Hall
16 Rewarding Work: Integrating Service into an
Institutional Framework on Faculty Roles and Rewards 231
Jeanette Clausen
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Contents ix
17 Curb Service or Public Scholarship To Go 245
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 261
Valerie Lee
Selected Bibliography 275
List of Contributors 281
Index 287
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