InhaltsangabeList of Figures and Tables. List of Contributors. Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Conceptualising Challenges and Negotiations for Women in Higher Education.- SECTION ONE: Ambivalent Positions in the Academy. Introduction. 1: Challenging Women in the Male Academy: think about draining the Swamp. 2: Women: Mothers and Others: discourses of women and motherhood in three academic departments. 3: The Gendered Implications of Quality Assurance and Audit: quality and equality.- SECTION TWO: Process and Pedagogy at Work. Introduction. 4. From Tangle to Web: women's life-histories and feminist process. 5: Strange Bedfellows: feminist pedagogy and information technology. 6: Welcome to the Pleasure Dome: women taking pleasure in the university. 7: Caring Monsters?: a critical exploration of contradictions and ambiguities.- SECTION THREE: Career - Identity - Home. Introduction. 8: Distance Learners Juggling Home, Work and Study: is gender an issue? 9: Three Ages of Women: age and generation in the academy. 11: Imaging 'Career': part-time working, full-time living. 11: Women and Work/Life Balance: A Higher Education Perspective.- References.- Index.