Lived Experiences of Women in Academia

Metaphors, Manifestos and Memoir
Herausgeber: Black, Alison L; Garvis, Susanne

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Produktbeschreibung

Lived Experience of Women in Academia is collection of stories that engages research focused on making meaning through self-study and autoethnography. Metaphor, manifesto and memoir are used by women across disciplines and across countries, as ways to represent the complex and unique dimensionalities of life and work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781138551121
• ISBN-10: 1138551120
• Artikelnr.: 52457772

Autorenporträt

Alison L. Black is a narrative researcher and early childhood educator. Her arts-based research and scholarly work seeks to foster connectedness, community, wellbeing and meaning-making through the building of reflective and creative lives and identities. Ali is interested in storied and visual approaches for dismantling personal/professional binaries and representing lives. Her research and writing is concerned with the power and impact of collaborative and relational knowledge construction. Susanne Garvis is Professor of Child and Youth Studies in the Department of Education, Communication and Learning, University of Gothenburg. Her focus is the field of early childhood education. Susanne has been involved in Australian, European and international research projects and is the current organizer of the Nordic Early Childhood Systems Approach Research Group.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of contributors
Preface
Chapter 1 Uncreatively writing women's lives in academia
Chapter 2 Mothers, scholars and feminists: inside and outside the Australian academic system
Chapter 3 The lecturer's new clothes: an academic life, in textiles
Chapter 4 You're doctor what? Challenges for creative arts research in a culture of binaries
Chapter 5 "Going to see": an academic woman researching her own kind
Chapter 6 'If these walls could talk': looking in, walking out, and reimagining a broken system
Chapter 7 Motherhood and academia: a story of bodily fluids and going with the flow
Chapter 8 Taking a trip through and with the sisterhood of the Global South: storying our experiences as female academics in Indonesia and Australia
Chapter 9 In the spirit of shared solidarity: women in academia and transformation
Chapter 10 Playing in the corridors of academia
Chapter 11 An academic career: looking back and looking forward
Chapter 12 Identity and inclusion in academia: voices of migrant women
Chapter 13 Trauma in the academy
Chapter 14 A woman in academia: . . . and what about the children?
Chapter 15 Not a matter of will: a narrative and cross-cultural exploration of maternal ambivalence
Chapter 16 Being a mother, becoming a university teacher: traversing the terrain to knowing oneself
Chapter 17 Metaphors for women's experiences of early career academia: Buffy, Alice, and Frankenstein's creature
Chapter 18 The double life of a casual academic
Afterword
Index