Strategies for resisting sexism in the academy : higher education, gender and intersectionality / Gail Crimmins, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crimmins, Gail, editor.

Series:

Palgrave studies in gender and education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex discrimination in higher education.

Sex discrimination against women.

Equality.

Physical Description:

xxv, 342 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Contents:

A structural account of inequality in the international academy : why resistance to sexism remains urgent and necessary / Gail Crimmins

Moving through the world as a woman / Ruth Pearce

An examination of the Athena SWAN initiatives in the UK : critical reflections / Maria Tsouroufli

Fellowship as resistance : how women educators in higher education benefit from international professional recognition / Elizabeth (Beth) Beckmann

Explorations on the nature of resistance : challenging gender-based violence in the academy / Ruth Lewis and Sundari Anitha

Building connections across difference : faculty mentoring as institutional change / Heather Laube

First Nations' women in the academy : disrupting and displacing the white male gaze / Sandy O'Sullivan

(Hyper)visible 'women'/invisible (dalit) women : challenging the elusive sexism in Indian universities / Anagha Tambe

n.paradoxa's MOOC (Mass Open Online Course) : a case study in feminist online pedagogies / Katy Deepwell

Civic engagement as empowerment : theater, public art, and spoken word as roads to activism / Kay Siebler

Genders at work : gender as a geography of power in the academy / Kate Carruthers Thomas

Collective biography as a feminist methodology / Susanne Gannon and Marnina Gonick

Recipes on arts-based research pratice as a form of feminist resistance / Briony Lipton and Gail Crimmins

Working across/within/through academic conventions of writing a Ph.D : stories about writing a feminist thesis / Anna R. Moxnes

Punk feminism and #FEAS : a low-brow protest of academic sexism / Mindy Blaise, Linda Knight and Emily Gray

Civic engagement as empowerment : sharing our names and remembering our her-stories : resisting Ofuniversity / Linda Henderson, Ali Black, Gail Crimmins and Janice K. Jones

Mobilising a feminist manifesta : critical reflections on challenging and being challenged in the neoliberal academy / The Res-sisters

Strategies to 'slay the dragon' : one head at a time / Gail Crimmins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783030048518

3030048519

OCLC:

1085969484