After ten years teaching in the English Department at New England's exclusive Enfield College, Professor Karen Pelletier is finally up for tenure. But when her rival for the position is found dead, Karen becomes the police's number one suspect. To complicate matters, political tensions on campus are rising and two of Karen's favorite students get caught up in the furor.

"Playing like a lively mixtape in both subject and style, "If This Were Fiction" engages topical issues such as violence against women, trauma, motherhood, and recovery, focusing a feminist lens on Jill Christman's first fifty years and sending out a message of love, power, and hope"--

When Baroness Troutbeck decides to visit to an Indiana university, she is unaware of the American preoccupation with political correctness. Soon a murder takes her mind off her annoyances and she is joined by Amiss in a search for the killer.

Die Gewinnung von FH-Professorinnen und -Professoren wird seit 2016 von Wissenschaftsorganisationen intensiv diskutiert. Gelingt es an der Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin im Rahmen der freien Berufungskorridore den Frauenanteil unter den FH-Professuren markant zu erhöhen und eine "place to be"-Strategie zu etablieren?

"For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic--until a student she'd never met shot her. He also shot himself. Now he's dead and she's back on campus, trying to keep up with her class schedule, a growing problem with painkillers, and a question she can't let go: Why? All she wants is for life to get back to normal, but normal is looking hard to come by. She's thirty-eight and hobbles with a cane. Her first student interaction...

"Eileen Merriweather knows a thing or two about romance. As a professor of literature, she teaches prestigious courses on history's greatest romantics, but one week out of the year she abandons her dusty textbooks and makes a pilgrimage to the Hudson Valley with her best friend Pru to meet their Super Smutty Book Club in person, and celebrate the romance series that brought them together--Quixotic Falls. It's a week of wine and happily-ever-afters....

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court; this is the true behind-the-scenes story of that testimony. On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. She described...

In an inventive and controversial collection of essays, sociologist Susan Krieger considers the many forms of wealth, both material and emotional, that women pass on to each other. This domestic heritage-the "family silver"--Is the keystone for a discussion of mother-daughter relationships, intimate relationships between lesbians, ties between students and feminist teachers, the dilemmas of women in academia as well as in the broader work world, and...