Civic engagement as empowerment: sharing our names and remembering our her-stories—resisting ofuniversity
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Civic engagement as empowerment: sharing our names and remembering our her-stories—resisting ofuniversity |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 2865 |
Book Title | Strategies for resisting sexism in the academy: higher education, gender and intersectionality |
Authors | Henderson, Linda (Author), Black, Ali (Author), Crimmins, Gail (Author) and Jones, Janice K. (Author) |
Editors | Crimmins, Gail |
Page Range | 287-304 |
Series | Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education |
Chapter Number | 16 |
Number of Pages | 18 |
Year | 2019 |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Place of Publication | New York, United States |
ISBN | 9783030048518 |
9783030048525 | |
ISSN | 2524-6445 |
2524-6453 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04852-5 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030048518#aboutAuthors |
Abstract | In this chapter, The Women Who Write speak from their experiences as female academics to expose and collectively resist the competitive, masculinised, individualising culture of academia. Drawing upon the dystopic narratives of surrogacy, surveillance and survival in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, this chapter creates a fertile space for sharing entangled stories and complex truths: women walking with/in the university, but not Ofuniversity. Against global representations of a corporatised academe, this chapter speaks-back to the academic machine, asserting that women are more-than productive surrogates, even as they are overlooked/unnamed. By speaking their names and human stories, the authors re-vision academia and re-position themselves not as the public possession of academia but as beings Ofearth, Ofourselves, and Ofeachother. |
Keywords | post-feminist discourse, disadvantage, resistance strategies, pedagogy, political subversion, sexism in higher education |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 440599. Gender studies not elsewhere classified |
390406. Gender, sexuality and education | |
Public Notes | Published files associated with this record cannot be displayed. |
Byline Affiliations | Monash University |
University of the Sunshine Coast | |
School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
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