Being and becoming professionally other : identities, voices, and experiences of U.S. trans* academics / Erich N. Pitcher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pitcher, Erich N., 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trans people--United States--Identity.

Trans people.

College teachers--United States--Social conditions.

College teachers.

Universities and colleges--United States--Administration.

Universities and colleges.

Social conditions.

Transgender people.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

United States.

Administration.

Physical Description:

xii, 216 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2018]

Summary:

Being and Becoming Professionally Other: Identities, Voices, and Experiences of U.S. Trans * Academics is a path-clearing book that provides a rich, in-depth account of the lived experiences of 39 transgender of trans * academics. Despite increased visibility of trans * issues within higher education, college environments remain unfriendly, and in some cases, overtly hostile to trans * people. While there is much discussion of gender equity and faculty diversity, these conversations rarely include trans * academics' voices. As a study participant described, trans * voices are often out of place at best-or worse, completely discounted in academe, a betwixt place. By not fitting into a particular mold, trans * academics experience a variety of adverse events including microaggressions, outright hostility, and exclusion. These adverse experiences create a context wherein trans * academics engage in various forms of additional labor. While not necessarily unique to trans * academics, these various forms of labor provided evidence to support my assertion that trans * academics are or become professionally Other. Given this Other status, trans * academics must form broad coalitions to bring about change within higher education organizations. Additionally, higher education leaders have an opportunity to change organizational contexts to better support trans * academics by radically re-imagining colleges and universities. This text would be an excellent choice for graduate and undergraduate courses about gender, qualitative research methods courses, and courses about academic careers, and organizational theories. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: the transgender tipping point

Theoretical interlude: embodied sedimentation

Embodied sedimentation: trans* academics' gender identities

Theoretical interlude: microfoundations and inequality regimes

"A sense of paranoia and hypersensitivity": articulation of the microfoundations of trans* academics experiences

Theoretical interlude: institutional logics perspective and neoliberal governmentality

Within the academic market/workplace

Theoretical interlude: thinking through thresholds

"A threshold across": how organizational contexts shape trans* academics' experiences

Theoretical interlude: articulating resistance

Uncovering trans* academics' resistance and disruption

Theoretical interlude: critical cholar/activist stance

Pulling across thresholds: towards a coalitional politics of liberation and new vision of gender in academic organizations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781433147258

9781433148514

143314851X

1433147254

OCLC:

995763752

Publisher Number:

99976241426