Being an early career feminist academic : global perspectives, experiences and challenges /: global perspectives, experiences and challenges. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rachel Thwaites, Amy Pressland, editors.
• Editors: Thwaites, Rachel; Pressland, Amy
• Contents: Introduction: Being an Early Career Feminist Academic in a Changing Academy; Rachel Thwaites and Amy Pressland.- PART I: INTRODUCING THE EARLY CAREER EXPERIENCE.- Chapter 1. A Precarious Passion: Gendered and Age-Based Insecurity among Aspiring Academics in Australia; Lara McKenzie.- Chapter 2. Navigating Gendered Expectations at the Margins of Feminism and Criminology; Olga Marques.- PART II: AFFECT AND IDENTITIES: NEGOTIATING TENSIONS IN THE EARLY CAREER.- Chapter 3. Academic, Woman, Mother: Negotiating MultipleSubjectivitiesduring Early Career; Agnes Bosanquet.- Chapter 4. Room for Confidence: Early Career Feminists in the English Department; Helena Goodwyn and Emily Jane Hogg.- Chapter 5. "Are you One of Us, or One of Them?" An Autoethnography of a 'Hybrid' Feminist Researcher Bridging Two Worlds; Sophie Alkhaled.- PART III: EXPLORING EXPERIENCES THROUGH INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGIES.- Chapter 6. Exposing the 'Hidden Injuries' of Feminist Early Career Researchers: An Experiential Think Piece about Maintaining Feminist Identities; Anna Tarrant and Emily Cooper.- Chapter 7. Reflecting Realities and Creating Utopias: early Career Feminists (un)Doing International Relations in Finland;Marjaana Jauhola and Saara Särmä.- PART IV: WORK, NETWORKS AND SOCIAL CAPITAL: BUILDING THE ACADEMIC CAREER.- Chapter 8. Challenges to Feminist Solidarity in the Era of New Public Management;Klara Regnö.- Chapter 9. Inequality in Academia: The Way Social Connections Work; Irina Gewinner.- Chapter 10. Feminist Work in Academia and Beyond;Órla Murray, Muireann Crowley, and Lena Wånggren.- PART V: ENVISAGING FEMINIST FUTURES.- Chapter 11. On Becoming 'Bad Subjects': Teaching to Transgress in Neoliberal education; Katherine Natanel.- Chapter 12. Embracing Vulnerability?: Reflection on My Academic Journey as a Japanese Feminist Early Career Research Abroad; Misato Matsuoka.- Chapter 13. "I'm an Early Career Feminist Academic: Get Me Out of Here?" Encountering and Resisting the Neoliberal Academy; The Res-Sisters.- Conclusion: Final Thoughts and Future Directions; Rachel Thwaites and Amy Pressland.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (298 pages)
• Subjects: 378.12082; Education; Women college teachers; Feminism and higher education; Gender identity in education; Education, Higher; Laufbahn; Wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs; Feminismus; Education -- Higher; Education -- Administration -- General; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Higher & further education, tertiary education; Organization & management of education; Sociology; Education -- General; Education
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137543257
• Related ISBNs: 9781137543240
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