The graduate grind : a critical look at graduate education / Patricia Hinchey, Isabel Kimmel.

1. Problems and Perspectives -- Questioning Trends in Graduate Education -- Defining "The Problem" -- 2. Sources of Institutional Power: Constructed Consciousness, Hegemony, and Reification -- Constructed Consciousness: Lessons from Experience -- Institutional Hegemony: Graduate Student Perception of Place and Power -- Reification: Institutions That Can Do No Wrong -- 3. Institutional Cultures and Power: The Minefield of Conflicting Identities -- The Influence of Culture on Behavior -- Culture as an Interpretive Lens -- Institutional Cultures and Student Experience -- 4. Culture and Oppression: The "Other" as Graduate Student -- Forms of Oppression -- Experience of the Other -- Realities -- 5. Power and the Dissertation: Faculty as Demigods -- Ritual and Gatekeeping -- Dilemmas and Demigods -- 6. Voices of the Oppressed -- 7. How Might Things Be Otherwise? -- Recent Thoughts on Reform -- Philosophical Concerns -- Part ing. Thoughts.