Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy Higher Education, Gender and Intersectionality /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Crimmins, Gail (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education,
• Θέματα: Gender identity in education.; Higher education.; Women.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender and Education.; Higher Education.; Women's Studies.; Gender Studies.

This book harnesses the expertise of women academics who have constructed innovative approaches to challenging existing sexual disadvantage in the academy. Countering the prevailing postfeminist discourse, the contributors to this volume argue that sexism needs to be named in order to be challenged...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• SECTION I. Initiatives and practices of resistance that support institutions, as well as individual academics, to identify and address sexual disadvantage in the academy
• Chapter 1. A Structural Account of Inequality in the International Academy: Why Resistance to Sexism Remains Urgent and Necessary; Gail Crimmins
• Chapter 2. Moving Through the World as a Woman; Ruth Pearce
• Chapter 3. An Examination of the Athena Swan Initiatives in the UK: Critical Reflections; Maria Tsouroufli
• Chapter 4. Fellowship as Resistance: How Women Educators in Higher Education Benefit from International Professional Recognition; Elizabeth A. Beckmann
• Chapter 5. Explorations on the Nature of Resistance: Challenging Gender Based Violence in the Academy; Ruth Lewis and Sundari Anitha
• Chapter 6. Building Connections Across Difference: Faculty Mentoring as Institutional Change; Heather Laube
• Chapter 7. First Nations' Women in the Academy: Disrupting and Displacing the White Male Gaze; Sandy O'Sullivan
• Chapter 8. (Hyper) Visible 'Women' / Invisible (Dalit) Women: Challenging the Elusive Sexism in Indian Universities' Anagha Tambe
• SECTION II. An Examination of Feminist and Critical Pedagogies that resist the Reproduction of Masculine Knowledge Systems
• Chapter 9. n.paradoxa's MOOC (Mass Open Online Course): A Case Study in Feminist Online Pedagogies; Katy Deepwell
• Chapter 10. Civic Engagement as Empowerment: Theatre, Public Art, and Spoken Word as Roads to Activism; Kay Siebler
• SECTION III. Approaches to Research that Offer an Alternative to Androcentric Research Practices
• Chapter 11. Genders at Work: Gender as a Geography of Power in the Academy; Kate Carruthers Thomas
• Chapter 12. Collective Biography as a Feminist Methodology; Susanne Gannon and Marnina Gonick
• Chapter 13. Recipes on Art-Based Research Practice as a Form of Feminist Resistance; Briony Lipton and Gail Crimmins
• Chapter 14. Working Across/Within/Through Academic Conventions of Writing a PhD: Stories About Writing a Feminist Thesis; Anna Moxnes
• SECTION IV. Case Studies of Women Collectives which Expose, Satirise and Subvert Sexism in the Academy
• Chapter 15. Punk Feminism and #FEAS: A Low-Brow Protest of Academic Sexism; Mindy Blaise, Linda Knight and Emily Gray
• Chapter 16. Civic Engagement as Empowerment: Sharing Our Names and Remembering our Her-Stories: Resisting Ofuniversity; The Women Who Write; Linda Henderson, Alison L. Black, Gail Crimmins and Janice K. Jones
• Chapter 17. Mobilising a Feminist Manifesta: Critical Reflections on Challenging and Being Challenged in the Neoliberal Academy; The Res-Sisters
• SECTION V. Concluding Considerations
• Chapter 18. Strategies to 'Slay the Dragon' - One Head at a Time; Gail Crimmins.