Full Description
Women in Scholarly Publishing explores the under-researched topic of gender and scholarly publishing. While often considered separately, the relationship between gender and scholarly publishing has been neglected. Bringing together experts across applied linguistics, this book brings to the fore the challenges and opportunities faced by female academics in both Anglophone and non-Anglophone contexts as they participate in the production and dissemination of knowledge.
Contributors show how female scholars' production and dissemination of knowledge intersect with gendered structures and disciplinary cultures in complex ways. The key strands of work that this volume seeks to bring together include essentialism in gender studies and alternative perspectives on how gender should be viewed and studied in knowledge production and dissemination; the specific ways in which the labour and conditions surrounding scholarly publication are gendered or perceived as gendered; the examination of discourses, texts and genres from a gender perspective; and the continuing gendered and gendering impacts on career trajectories of women academics. While women's barriers are documented across geopolitical contexts, the book also shows how norms, policies and practices can be challenged and alternative futures imagined.
The book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, institutional decision-makers, writing mentors, early-career scholars and graduate students in a variety of fields.
Contents
1. Women and the construction and valuing of knowledge in academia Section I: Discourses and Barriers 2. Perceived gender inequities in the scholarly publishing process: before, during and after 3. "Women Serve": Discourses, Identities, and Scholarly Publishing Decisions 4. Academic Texts: Gender, Writing, and the Academy 5. Gender and Academic Publishing on the Semi-Periphery: Stories from Iceland 6. The impact of COVID-19 on scholarly publication practices of Turkish female and male scholars Section II: Context and Variation 7. Beyond Essentialism: Situating Gender and Academic Publishing 8. Gender differences in South African scholarly output, 2005-2016: Variation across scientific domains 9. When the scales of home and the academy collapse: Gender roles and chronotopes in online discussions of scholarly publishing during the Covid-19 lockdown 10. The impact of blurred boundaries on the personal and professional selves of academics: A collaborative autoethnography of challenges faced by Mauritian academics engaged in academic writing during the COVID 19 pandemic 11. Gender, Editorship and Gatekeeping in the Field of Linguistics: An Empirical Study of Academic Handbooks from the 1980s to the 2020s Section III: Agency and Transformation 12. Making the home a site for slow, caring scholarship: Gendered experiences of writing for publication in Covid-19 times and beyond 13. Mapping Contours of Gender and Knowledge Production: Towards Scholarly Writing as Gifts of Knowledge 14. Technofeminist Editorial Mentoring and the Future of Digital Scholarly Publication 15. Women's Work: Scholarship, Voice, and Resistance in the Academic Generation of Knowledge 16. Disrupting structures that disrupt women's writing 17. Interrupting caring with care: Writing retreats for academic caregivers
