Women Activating Agency in Academia: Metaphors, Manifestos and Memoir

ISBN-13: 9781138551138 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 210 str.

Alison L. Black; Susanne Garvis

Opis

Women Activating Agency in Academia seeks to create and expand safe spaces for scholarly, professional and personal stories and assemblages of agency. It provides a place to connect with the strategies women are using, and it explores core values of female academics linked to trust, relationship, wellbeing and ethics of care.

Spis treści

List of figures; List of contributors; Preface; Chapter 1 Telling stories, gaining wisdom: putting our voices into our practice; Chapter 2 You’re not alone: discovering the power of sharing life narratives as academic women; Chapter 3 Responding to longings for slow scholarship: writing ourselves into being; Chapter 4 "We would love to have you over . . . ": building career capital in a new academic environment; Chapter 5 How yoga taught me about vocation; Chapter 6 Intergenerational bodies: women’s knowledge production in supervisory relations; Chapter 7 Feasible utopias and affective flows in the academy: a mobilisation of hope and optimism; Chapter 8 Beyond silence and conformity: a reflection on academic activism as resistance to managerialism in the contemporary university; Chapter 9 Academia as therapy; Chapter 10 Travellers: traversing the academic landscape: a dialogue; Chapter 11 Confronting, collaborating, and crafting: an enlivening methodology for academic ecojustice activism; Chapter 12 Women writing to ourselves: rescuing the girl child from androcentricity; Chapter 13 Embracing the power of the self as a female scholar; Chapter 14 Vulnerability: an uncomfortable means to a positive place; Chapter 15 PhD: Pivotal Heart Development; Chapter 16 Stretching the elastic: can we change the heart of university management?; Chapter 17 To care for self and others: a collaborative conversation; Chapter 18 I am the compliant academic; Afterword; Index