Women supervising and writing doctoral theses : walking on the grass / edited by Lia Bryant and Katrina Jaworski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bryant, Lia, editor.

Jaworski, Katrina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women doctoral students.

Sex differences in education.

Doctor of philosophy degree.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book brings life and depth to understanding the emotional and embodied nature of academic writing, supervising, and inter-subjective learning. It shows that instrumental pedagogies impede universities' neoliberal goal of efficiency and that eliminating affect works against success in scholarship.

Contents:

Contents; 1 Introduction; I: Supervising Doctoral Students; 2 Honor Bound; 3 Passionate Activism as Academic Labor; II: Writing Doctoral Theses; 4 "Cutting the Mustard"; 5 Stuck between Two Languages; 6 Caring Labor and Caringscapes at the Margins of Academic Work; 7 The Emotional Space of the Doctoral Supervisory Relationship; 8 The Liminal Space of PhD Candidature; 9 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Contributor Biographies

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Women supervising and writing doctoral theses : walking on the grass.