The positioning and making of female professors : pushing career advancement open /: pushing career advancement open. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rowena Murray, Denise Mifsud, editors.
• Editors: Murray, Rowena; Mifsud, Denise
• Contents: Intro; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; 1 Introduction: The Positioning and Making of Female Academics-A Review of the Literature; Female Academics Within the Neoliberal Higher Education Arena: Problematizing Gender Im/Balance; Barriers to Career Advancement in Academia: A Matter of Choice or Fait-Accompli?; Higher Education Leadership and Hegemonic Masculinity: The 'Othering' and 'Domestication' of the Female Academic?; Identity Perceptions of Female Professors; Global Narratives and Autoethnography Autoethnographic Accounts of 'Making It': A Methodological Bridging of Writing Inquiry and CritiqueOutline of Monograph; References; 2 Being Tough, Being Humorous and Being Explicitly Feminist-The "Intrinsically Disordered Nature" of My Ways Around Academia; Being Tough, Being Humorous; 'Doing Gender' in the Academia; Confronting Power by Being Explicitly Feminist; References; 3 'You Must Wait to Be Asked': Career Advancement and the Maternal Body; Introduction; On Being a 'Maternal Body'; Two Significant Events; Developing a Research Narrative; Don't Wait to Be Asked; Supportive Networks CitizenshipMaternity and Academic Life Today; References; 4 Babies Taught Me How to "Do" Academia: Crafting a Career in an Institution That Was Not Built for Mothers; Maternal Narratives and Academia; A Matrifocal Academic Narrative; Baby #1: Learning to Use Focus; Baby #2: Breaking Down and Burning Out; Baby #3: Ratchetting up the Maternal Narrative in Academia; Conclusion: Maternal Narratives of Resistance; References; 5 Writing Myself into an Academic Career; Context; Being in This Context; Writing Myself into a Career; The Social Writing Framework; How I 'Made' It; Conclusion; References 6 Academic Fluidity? An Unconventional Route to the ProfessoriateOpening; Leaving the Ivory Tower; Moving to the 'Other Side'?; Under Review; Academic Fluidity; References; 7 My Personal Journey on the Pathway of Resilience; My Desirability Framework; A Summary of the (Community) Resilience Literature; My Journey Away from Undesirable Outcomes Towards Desirable Outcomes; The Professor Moment; My On-Going Drive to Profess; Freedom from and Freedom to…; References; 8 Actively Constructing Yourself as a Professor: After Appointment; The Context in Broad Brush Strokes The Diversity of the Higher Education SectorSystemic Gender Inequalities; A Very Sticky Floor; My Entry into Osaka University; Becoming a Professor: A Double Translation Process; Constructing an Identity as a Leader; Embodying the Professorship; Body Matters; Authenticity and the Task of (Re)-Defining Success; Support and Knowledge Sharing Across Borders; From Looking for a Role Model to Being a Role Model; Life Beyond the Academy; Conclusion; References; 9 Mis-Making an Academic Career: Power, Discipline, Structures, and Practices; Auto-Ethnography as a Sociological Tool
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 378.12082; Women college teachers; Women in higher education; Gender identity in education; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030261870; 3030261875
• Related ISBNs: 9783030261863
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 26, 2019).
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