The Positioning and Making of Female Professors Pushing Career Advancement Open /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Murray, Rowena (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mifsud, Denise (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: Higher education.; Gender identity in education.; Women.; Career education.; Higher Education.; Gender and Education.; Women's Studies.; Career Skills.

This book explores the experiences and perspectives of female professors. Analysing the gendering of this process using various theoretical perspectives, this edited collection examines the active 'making' of careers, and how this has been possible. The editors and contributors cut across...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. The positioning and making of female academics: A review of the literature; Denise Mifsud
• Chapter 2. Being tough, being humorous and being explicitly feminist: The intrinsically disordered nature of my ways around the academia; Isabel Menezes
• Chapter 3. You must wait to be asked: Career advancement and the maternal body; Caroline Gattrell
• Chapter 4. How babies taught me to 'do' academia: Crafting a career in an institution that was not built for mothers; Catherine Mazak
• Chapter 5. Writing myself into an academic career; Rowena Murray
• Chapter 6. Academic fluidity? An unconventional route to the professoriate; Jackie Potter
• Chapter 7. My personal journey on the pathway of resilience; Sarah Skerratt
• Chapter 8. Actively constructing yourself as a professor: After appointment; Beverley Yamamoto
• Chapter 9. How to fall into a career trap (without even realising); Inger Mewburn
• Chapter 10. Mis-making an academic career: Power, discipline, structures and practices; Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
• Chapter 11. A personal journey of a long and winding road to professorial status: An alternative pathway and the challenges, trials and tribulations; Moira Lafferty
• Chapter 12. The process of becoming a woman professor and 'unbecoming' gender inequality: A female drama of resistance; Denise Mifsud.