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EROTIC MENTORING
ing older scholar, as mistress or wife, as the dutiful academic daughter. Their resistance
to this power differential also takes many forms: the Veiled Woman, silent in public but
active in private, or the Siren, using her sexuality to beat the system. Ultimately, Rushing
arrives at the myth of Eros and Psyche, where women’s self-understanding and personal
development transforms her erotic mentoring into an autonomous, whole, and free life,
unfettered by any man. These women’s stories, and Rushing’s literary and literate fram-
ing of their lives, will ring true to many in the university.
This is a wonderful book, full of insights about academic life, written with energy, wit, and pas-
sion. Intensely readable, entertaining and sharp, it will make you laugh and make you cry. Jan-
ice Rushing’s original take on women in the academy, higher education, and the predominantly
male world it enshrines unfolds like a post-modern novel. Her use of classical myth is brilliant
and alluring, and the real-world stories she tells will strike a chord in every academic woman’s
heart. —Jane Tompkins, University of Illinois, Chicago, author of A Life in School
In her characteristic style of wit, grace, and critique, Rushing strips away the academic armor
that protects yet diminishes academic women, nudging all of us toward brave new ways of see-
ing, being, and feeling. Erotic Mentoring is a unique and compelling book that should make
all of us more aware of the importance of living a life one can truly call her own. Janice Rushing
saved the best for last. —Arthur P. Bochner, University of South Florida
The late Janice Hocker Rushing was professor of Communication at University of Ar-
kansas, author of three books, and a specialist in myth, gender studies, rhetorical theory
and criticism, film, and popular culture. She received numerous awards for both her
teaching and scholarship.
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