Full Description
Through a lens of self-care and wellbeing, this book shares stories of struggle and success from a diverse range of women in academia.
Each story highlights how these women mitigated and overcame various barriers as part of their academic trajectory and provides practical strategies for maintaining self-care and wellbeing. Taken from lived experience, the autoethnographic narrative approach provides a deeper, personal understanding of the obstacles faced by women throughout an academic career and guidance on how these might be navigated in a way that avoids self-sacrificing.
This collection goes further to illustrate the ways that higher education institutions can be more accommodating of the needs of women.
Contents
Part I: Women and the Changing Academia 1. Of glass ceilings and glass cliffs: Navigating the gendered academy 2. The holy trinity of teaching, research, and service 3. The dancing lecturer: Crafting the strong woman in the academia 4. Carrying the world on your back: The burden of self-care for under-represented women Part II: Identity Formations and the Career Trajectory 5. Solitude, sanctuary, and pseudo-mentors: A pandemic lens on an early career transition into doing and being research/researcher 6. Journaling As Self-Care, Journaling For Personal And Professional Development: A Visual Narrative 7. Give me wings, and I will fly 8. Navigating fieldwork amidst my menstrual cycle: Being a female ethnographer in a remote Indian region 9. Mentoring practices in higher education: Self-care through the lens of the mentee in the era of remote learning Part III: Of Well-being and Self-care in Academia 10. A polyvagal pathway: Implications of Pursuing It All 11. Carving your destiny in academia as a "lecturer" and a "mother" 12. Navigating and building resilience in academia: Dual perspectives 13. A great escape for my survival as a female academic in Japan: my story, my career trajectory 14. Uncensored? Writing our resistance as an act of self-care 15. Of wellbeing and self-care in academia
