Full Description
The eleven essays making up this book unite scholars from various disciplines to explore how feminists live, survive, and thrive in academia. The pieces investigate innovative ways that women academics occupy the space of the Academy as real living bodies while resisting being judged, devalued, or valued on the basis of their biological bodies. Specific themes include abortion rights activism, authority in the classroom, feminist mentoring, the role of women's studies programs, division of labor, and the role of theater and performance in enacting lasting change.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Ellen Mayock and Domnica Radulescu
Part I: Feminist Pedagogies and Mentorship
Defending a Choice for Women: A Feminist Video Ethnography
Beverly Yuen Thompson
Get Out of My Uterus! A Manifesto against Reproductive Politics in the Academic World and in the World at Large
Domnica Radulescu
Teaching to Spite Your Body
Robin M. LeBlanc
Running the Gauntlet: Battling Sexism in Academia with Greasepaint, Bed Sheets, and Mardi Gras Beads
Norma Bowles
Feminist Mentorship in the Academy: Revolutionary Feminism in Action
Jennifer A. Boisvert
Mothering Out of Place: Deconstructing the Maternal Wall in Academia
Jeanine Silveira Stewart
Part II: Negotiating the Academy
Post-Tenure: A Performance of Blatant Subversion
Kathleen Juhl
"Mothering Language" in the Academic Workplace
Ellen Mayock
On the Front Lines: Feminist Activism in a Catholic University
Cate Siejk and Jane A. Rinehart
Motherhood Status and the Limits of Flexibility: Recognition and Invisibility among Women Faculty at a Public Liberal Arts University
Karin E. Peterson and Alice A.Weldon
The Tender Track
Sara Warner
About the Contributors
Index
