Examining common assumptions and routines through the lens of critical theory, the authors question several aspects of graduate education, including the conception of graduate students as institutional capital; institutionalized prejudice based on age, gender, sexual orientation, race and class; and competing power and value systems. The authors allow students to tell their own stories, thus humanizing the results of abuses generated by a flawed system. Finding a current exploitation of students unconscionable, Hinchey and Kimmel call for a new vision of graduate education, one in which students are valued and treated as unique and vibrant individuals

Patricia Hinchey, Isabel Kimmel

Chapter 1 Problems and Perspectives; Chapter 2 Sources of Institutional Power; Chapter 3 Institutional Cultures and Power; Chapter 4 Culture and Oppression; Chapter 5 Power and the Dissertation; Chapter 6 Voices of the Oppressed 1 All narratives in this chapter have been culled from taped interviews with volunteers. The transcripts have been edited to make the written narratives easier to read and more coherent. The words, thoughts, and stories, however, come entirely from the speakers.; Chapter 7 How Might Things be Otherwise?;