Gender Shrapnel in the Academic Workplace

ISBN-13: 9781137514622 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 244 str.

Ellen Mayock

Opis

This book employs the image of "shrapnel," bits of scattered metal that can hit purposeful targets or unwitting bystanders, to narrate the story of workplace power and gender discrimination.

Spis treści

Section 1:  Gender Shrapnel

Chapter 1:  Gendered Stories, Hybrid Methods

Chapter 2:  Back When I Wasn’t a Feminist

Chapter 3:  Narratives of Gender Shrapnel

 

 

Section 2:  Gender Problems in the Workplace

Chapter 4:  The Enduring Feminine Mystique

Chapter 5:  Institutional Language(s) and the Enactment of Language

Chapter 6:  The Cycle of Harassment in the Workplace

Chapter 7:  On Emotion, Silence, and Shutting Up

Chapter 8:  The ‘Glass Ceiling’ and Hiring, Training, and Promotion

 

 

Section 3:  Solutions

 

Chapter 9:   To be PC or not to be PC, That is the Question

Chapter 10:  Thinking about Institutional Language in New Ways

Chapter 11:  Common Denominators and Potential Modes of Communication

Chapter 12:  ‘Tempered Radicalism’ and Holding the Powerful Accountable

Chapter 13:  ‘Small Wins’:  Establishing Dependable and Flexible Institutional

                           Structures

Chapter 14:  Training Principles:  Checks and Balances, Sample Training Sessions, and

         Recommendations for Promoting an Equitable Work Environment

 

 

Section 4:  Case Studies in Gender Shrapnel

Chapter 15:  Gender Shrapnel Case Studies

 

 

Section 5:  Clearing the Shrapnel

Chapter 16:  Final Remarks

 

 

 

Appendix:  Instructor’s Guide.  Case Studies in Gender Shrapnel

 

Bibliography

O autorze

Ellen Mayock is the Ernest Williams II Professor of Spanish and Core Faculty in Women's and Gender Studies at Washington and Lee University, Virginia, USA. She has published broadly on contemporary Spanish and Latin American literature and cultures as well as on feminist theories and practice.   

Blurb

This book employs the image of “shrapnel,” bits of scattered metal that can hit purposeful targets or unwitting bystanders, to narrate the story of workplace power and gender discrimination. The project interweaves stories of gender shrapnel with an examination of national rhetoric surrounding business, education, and law to uncover underlying phenomena that contribute to discourse on privilege and gender in the academic workplace. Using concrete examples that serve as case studies for subsequent discussion of data about women in the workforce, language use and misuse, sexual harassment, silence and shutting up, and hiring, training, promotion, and the glass ceiling, Mayock explores the deeper implications of gender inequity in the workplace.