. However, I object to making a goal of being a good woman academic. I'd rather be a good academic, tout court, and then it won't (or shouldn't -- but that's another topic altogether) matter that I am a woman academic.
Something both my mother (a history professor of long standing) and my sister (an independent scholar of long standing) (both PhD's in history) would most heartily agree with. They're historians, teachers, academics, who happen to be women, not Women Academics. And I agree with it too, but I'm neither a woman, nor particularly an academic, teacher, or historian.
Be good at what you do, and who gives a flying fig what sex you are? (Or, well, no matter if you even have a sex, for that matter....)
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Date: 2010-07-02 01:29 am (UTC)Something both my mother (a history professor of long standing) and my sister (an independent scholar of long standing) (both PhD's in history) would most heartily agree with. They're historians, teachers, academics, who happen to be women, not Women Academics. And I agree with it too, but I'm neither a woman, nor particularly an academic, teacher, or historian.
Be good at what you do, and who gives a flying fig what sex you are? (Or, well, no matter if you even have a sex, for that matter....)