Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Prologue: A View from the Pinnacle: Conversations with Martha Piper - Sally E.Thorne -- PART ONE - SOLITUDES AND FORMAL KNOWLEDGE -- Introduction: Narratives of Solitude - Elvi Whittaker -- 1 - Building and Redefining Women's Studies in Canada - Annalee Lepp -- 2 - Canadian Feminist Anthropology: Imagining the Terrain - Winnie Lem -- 3 - Constructing Knowledge for Equity in the University: What Do the Categories Tell Us? - Joan M. Anderson in Dialogue with Noga Gayle -- PART TWO - IDENTITIES AND THE EVERYDAY -- Introduction: Identities and the Everyday -- 4 - Tenure (Un)Secure/d: As Words Go Into Labour - Patricia Palulis -- 5 - Seeking Scientific Voice: Strategies for Emerging Scientists - Cecilia Moloney -- 6 - Solidarity in the Solitudes of Student Life: Contemporary Women Students Discuss Life and Work in the Academy - Katie Aubrecht and Isabel Mackenzie Lay -- 7 - Changing by Degrees: The Narratives of Mature Women Students - Lelia Kennedy -- 8 - The Non-Nons: Secretarial and Clerical Staff - Isabella Losinger -- 9 - It's Not Just the Glass Ceiling, It's the Caste Ceiling - Kersti Krug -- 10 - Contractual University Teaching: The Question of Gender- Linda Cohen -- 11 - The Missing Link: Research Nurses and Their Contribution to the Production of Research Knowledge - Patricia Kaufert -- 12 - Collective Insecurity: An Exploration of the Experiences of Women Faculty in Atlantic Canada - Zelda Abramson, Phyllis L.F. Rippeyoung, and E. Lisa Price -- Afterthoughts -- References -- Contributors -- Index.