Women Activating Agency In Academia

Author : Alison L Black
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367890957
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Activating Agency in Academia written by Alison L Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Activating Agency in Academia seeks to create and expand safe spaces for scholarly, professional and personal stories and assemblages of agency. It provides readers with the opportunity to connect with the strategies women are using to navigate academe and the core values, linked to trust, relationship, wellbeing and ethics of care, they live by. The collection offers the stories of women academics from around the globe and across disciplines and showcases their efforts to meaningfully listen and converse in order to resist self-audit and diminished identities. Reflections come from a range of responsive, personal and aesthetic techniques, including writing groups, guided autobiography, auto-ethnography, collective activism and slow scholarship. Chapters engage with themes and ideas such as agency, neoliberalism, ontological security, androcentricity, identity and collegial support, which manifest in unique ways for female academics. The focus in this volume is what really matters to women in the academy, as they share their efforts to 'be' themselves in their work, to 'care for themselves and others' and to 'count what isn't counted'. It aims to prove how collaborative storytelling and discussion can empower female academics to preserve and achieve these ambitions.

Author : Alison L. Black
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138551138
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Activating Agency in Academia written by Alison L. Black and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling stories, gaining wisdom : putting our voices into our practice / Melissa Burchard, Amy Joy Lanou, Leah Greden Mathews, Karin Peterson, Alice Weldon -- You're not alone : discovering the power of sharing life narratives as academic women / Michelle Barker, Ann Webster-Wright, Deanne Gannaway, Wendy Green -- Responding to longings for slow scholarship : writing ourselves into being / Alison L. Black -- "We would love to have you over ..." : building career capital in a new academic environment / Heidi Harju-Luukkainen -- How yoga taught me about vocation / Melissa Mahoney -- Intergenerational bodies : women's knowledge production in supervisory relations / Margaret Somerville and Sarah Crinall -- Feasible utopias and affective flows in the academy : a mobilisation of hope and optimism / Jennifer Charteris, Adele Nye, Marguerite Jones -- Beyond silence and conformity : a reflection on academic activism as resistance to managerialism in the contemporary university / Christine Morley -- Academia as therapy / Dee Michell -- Travellers : traversing the academic landscape : a dialogue / Sharn Donnison and Sorrel Penn-Edwards -- Not a matter of will : a narrative and cross-cultural exploration of maternal ambivalence / Peta White, Sandra Wooltorton, and Marilyn Palmer -- Confronting, collaborating, and crafting : an enlivening methodology for academic ecojustice activism / Cecily Jensen-Clayton -- Embracing the power of the self as a female scholar / Rena MacLeod -- Vulnerability : an uncomfortable means to a positive place / Nicole Green, Cherry Stewart and Brenda Wolodko -- PhD : pivotal heart development / Sandra Engstrom -- Stretching the elastic : can we change the heart of university management? / Judy Backhouse -- To care for self and others : a collaborative conversation / Rachael Haynes and Courtney Pedersen -- I am the compliant academic / Linda Henderson

Author : Alison L. Black
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351376470
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Activating Agency in Academia written by Alison L. Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Activating Agency in Academia seeks to create and expand safe spaces for scholarly, professional and personal stories and assemblages of agency. It provides readers with the opportunity to connect with the strategies women are using to navigate academe and the core values, linked to trust, relationship, wellbeing and ethics of care, they live by. The collection offers the stories of women academics from around the globe and across disciplines and showcases their efforts to meaningfully listen and converse in order to resist self-audit and diminished identities. Reflections come from a range of responsive, personal and aesthetic techniques, including writing groups, guided autobiography, auto-ethnography, collective activism and slow scholarship. Chapters engage with themes and ideas such as agency, neoliberalism, ontological security, androcentricity, identity and collegial support, which manifest in unique ways for female academics. The focus in this volume is what really matters to women in the academy, as they share their efforts to ‘be’ themselves in their work, to ‘care for themselves and others’ and to ‘count what isn’t counted’. It aims to prove how collaborative storytelling and discussion can empower female academics to preserve and achieve these ambitions.

Author : Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003808670
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood written by Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood is a collection of essays in which life writing scholars theorize their early-career, mid-career, and late-career experiences with the documents that shape their professional lives as women: the institutional auto/biography of employment letters, curriculum vitae, tenure portfolios, promotion applications, publication and conference bios, academic website profiles, and other self-authored narratives required by institutions to compete for opportunities and resources. The essays explore the privacy laws, peer review, disciplinary standards, digital media, and other standardizing tools, practices and policies that impact women’s self-construction at pivotal junctures at which they promote themselves in the spaces of academic careers.

Author : Alison L. Black
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351376500
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lived Experiences of Women in Academia written by Alison L. Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lived Experiences of Women in Academia shares meaningful stories of women working in the academy, from numerous disciplines, backgrounds and countries, to unveil the complex and distinct dimensionalities they experience in their life and work. Chapters are written using a range of responsive, personal and aesthetic techniques, including metaphor, manifesto and memoir, with reflections inspired by textiles, online blogs and forums, theatre, creative writing, fiction and popular culture. They engage with themes and ideas including gender roles, family-making, work-life balance, motherhood, institutional violence and harassment and the self and identity, revealing how these uniquely manifest for women in academia. This collection takes account of the experiences of female academics from previous decades and the experiences of those to come, as well as those outside the academic system entirely. Lived Experiences of Women in Academia aims to liberate thinking around the life of a female academic through collaborative storytelling and discussion, to encourage new conversations and connections between women in academia across the globe

Author : Anastasia Kamanos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793604118
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Female Artist in Academia written by Anastasia Kamanos and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves into the conflicts, contradictions and paradoxes inherent in the lives of women who, as artists and academics, seek to connect their personal and professional lives in their work. It explores how creativity and the pursuit of self-knowledge relate to their lives and arises from the author's own experience as a woman, writer, and academic. Inquiries into creativity and feminist critical and cultural theory provide the framework for examining how the identity of the female artist is shaped within the patriarchal institution of academia. These inquiries allow a deeper understanding of the impact of this institution on the life and work of the female artist both within and beyond academia. As an auto-ethnographic study, Kamanos' distinctive voice is developed through narratives, journals, letters and a development of personal metaphors, as well as with a dialogue with others. As performative text, the narratives map a process of transformation that traces the artist's path from silence to voice. This book has important implications for women in higher education as self-study is revealed to be an essential methodological instrument for the articulation of alternative, authentic perspectives of marginalized and under-represented women. Moreover, the acknowledgement of the academic/ artist paradigm in teacher education opens the path for a re-viewing of the metaphors of self-denial, impersonation and masks that are part of the landscape of teacher knowledge.

Author : Briony Lipton
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030450627
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Academic Women in Neoliberal Times written by Briony Lipton and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the gendered dimensions of academic life in the contemporary Australian university. It examines key discourses – most notably academic performativity and identity – through a feminist lens, and scrutinises how discourses of neoliberalism and feminism are entangled in the structure, systems, operations and cultures of the university. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with academic women in Australia, the author uses a mix of experimental methods to emphasise the performative and discursive decisions women make with regard to their academic careers. In doing so, this book reveals how women themselves generate neoliberal and feminist shifts, how they manage the contradictions they produce, and how they carve spaces of influence and authority. Moving towards a re-evaluation of existing discourses, this book offers new insights into gender inequality in the Australian university in neoliberal times.

Author : Narelle Lemon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000630668
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Expression and Wellbeing in Higher Education written by Narelle Lemon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on individual and collective practices of creativity, embodiment and movement as acts of self-care and wellbeing. Creative Expression and Wellbeing in Higher Education positions creative expression as an important act for professionals working in higher education, as a way to connect, communicate, practice activism or simply slow down. Through examples as diverse as movement through dance and exercise, expression through drawing, writing or singing and creating objects with one’s hands, the authors share how individual and collective acts of creativity and movement enhance, support and embrace wellbeing, offering guidance to the reader on how such creative expression can be adopted as self-care practice. This book highlights how connection to hand, body, voice and mind has been imperative in this process for expression, fl ow and engagement with self and wellbeing practices. Self-care and wellbeing are complex at the best of times. In higher education, these are actions that are constantly being grappled with personally, collectively and systematically. Designed to support readers working in higher education, this book will also be of great interest to professionals and researchers.

Author : Alison L Black
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030758591
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reimagining the Academy written by Alison L Black and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the capacities and desires of academic women to reimagine and transform academic cultures. Embracing and championing feminist scholarship, the research presented by the authors in this collection holds space for a different way of being in academia and shifts the conversation toward a future that is hopeful, kind and inclusive. Through exploring lived experiences, building caring communities and enacting an ethics of care, the authors are reimagining the academy’s focus and purpose. The autoethnographic and arts-based research approaches employed throughout the book provide evocative conceptual content, which responds to the symbolic nature of transformation in the academy. This innovative volume will be of interest and value to feminist scholars, as well as those interested in disrupting and rejecting patriarchal academic structures.

Author : Narelle Lemon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000835855
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practising Compassion in Higher Education written by Narelle Lemon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a collective international story, this book demonstrates the importance of compassion as an act of self-care in the face of change and disruption, providing guidance on how to cope under trying conditions in higher education settings. Practising Compassion in Higher Education presents an opportunity to learn through story and by taking proactive action for our wellbeing. It highlights the need to protect and maintain the wellbeing of staff and students, positioning the COVID-19 pandemic as a major catalyst of disruption. The chapters connect theory with lived experience, exploring self-compassion in work and research, compassion in teaching practice and within the personal/professional blur. The book’s contributors bring a range of theoretical and personal perspectives from various global contexts, sharing their own approaches to self-care and how compassion has become a central and crucial element of this practice. This book takes a unique approach to navigating and surviving the higher education environment and offers valuable lessons for the pandemic era and beyond. This will be an essential resource for students and professionals working in all areas of higher education.