First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Sue Davies and Jocey Quinn job-share the post of Equal Opportunities Development Officer at the University of Central Lancashire, and coordinate the Women in Higher Education Network. Cathy Lubelska is Principal Lecturer in Social History and Women's Studies at the University of Central Lancashire.

WHEN (Women in Higher Education Network), Introduction, Part I: The Experiences of Women in Higher Education, Chapter 1. Being Different is a Very Difficult Row to Hoe: Survival Strategies of Women Academics, Chapter 2. Caught Between Two Worlds: Mothers as Academics, Chapter 3. Ivory Towers and Ebony Women: The Experiences of Black Women in Higher Education, Chapter 4. Fighting Back or Biting Back? Lesbians in Higher Education, Chapter 5. Women in Higher Education: What Are We Doing to Ourselves?, Part II: The Empowerment of Women in Higher Education, Chapter 6. Commonality and Difference: Theory and Practice, Chapter 7. Postgraduate Students: Empowering Ourselves, Chapter 8. Life Lines: Writing and Writer's Block in the Context of Women's Studies, Chapter 9. The Influence of Feminism on Black Women in the Higher Education Curriculum, Chapter 10. Empowering Disabled Women in Higher Education, Part III: Women Challenging the Mainstream Curriculum in Higher Education, Chapter 11. Is a Feminist Pedagogy Possible?, Chapter 12. Transforming the Household: Mature Women Students and Access to Higher Education, Chapter 13. Health and Caring in a Feminist Context, Chapter 14. Transforming the Curriculum, Contributors, Index