Broken Record : Gendered Abuse in Academia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holland, Mary K.

Contributor:

Rohman, Carrie.

Ferrari, Carlyn Ena.

Ahmed, Sara.

Series:

SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual harassment in universities and colleges.

Women in higher education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2025.

Summary:

A landmark volume documenting the scope and insidiousness of gendered abuse in academia, revealing the limits of institutional redress, and sharing hard-won strategies for change.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction: "A Fragile Archive"

A History of the Archive

Contributing to the Archive

Keeping and Using Our Tongues

Notes

Works Cited

Part One Contexts and Systems of Abuse

1. Survival Analysis: Why Do We Vanish, Where Do We Go?

2. This Chapter Not Intentionally Left Blank

3. Unbecoming the Other Me: A Female Academic Trapped in the Male Student Gaze

4. Keeping Women in Their Place: Sexism in Religious Universities

Undermining Self-efficacy and Underplaying Competence

Silencing and Othering

Upholding Traditional Gender Roles

Conclusion and Recommendations

5. The Snake: Surviving Misogyny in Tunisia

6. Tall Poppy in the English Field: How Successful Women Are Mowed Down

The Tenure Battle, Sexualized

Hospitality as Sexual Predation

Weaponizing #MeToo

7. Misogyny and Abuse in the Academic Library Workplace: Reflections on Fifteen Years in American Academic Libraries

Intimidation

Employer Privilege and Isolation

Verbal Abuse

Emotional Abuse

Economic Abuse

Coercion and Physical Violence

Women in Library Leadership

Conclusion

8. "Tell Me More": When Bleeding on the Page Isn't Enough

Little White Myths

Documenting a Crooked Room

"Tell Me More": Explaining as the Other

Not Enough Blood Evidence

Conclusion: Bleeding on the Page

Part Two Resistance and Consequences

9. Mad Woman in the Ivory Tower: The Continuous Costs of Speaking Up after Professor/Student Abuse

10. Muffled Voices: Creating Safe Space in a Toxic Department

Needing Safe Spaces

Choosing Silence, Choosing Safety

In Search of Justice

Still Searching for Safe Spaces

Notes.

11. Rocking the Boat: Experiences of "Silencing" from the Global South

Misrecognitions: A Graduate Student's Experience

Microinvalidations Disguised as Objectivity: A Professor's Experience

Resistance and Communities of Care

12. To Make a Fuss: The Chronic Predator in Higher Education

13. Too Woke, Too Radical, Too Unforgiving: Queer Resistance to the Patriarchal Panopticon

The Prelude and Buildup

The Gaslighting

The Incident

The Complaint

The Roleplay of Binaries

The Burden of Truth: Proving One's Victimization

Case Won, Justice Denied

The Homecoming

14. Shocked: Resisting and Rising above Abuse in Academe

Discrimination and Harassment

Reporting and Retaliation

A Culture of Fear and Silence

Stay Alive, Survive, Thrive

Hope to Heal

Note

15. The Specter of Anonymity and the Shadow Labor of Complaint

Becoming "The Poison Pen," or Playing My Part in a Scripted Story

The Shadow Labor of Complaint

Part Three Theorizing and Enacting Change as Individuals and Collectives

16. All My Skinfolk Ain't Kinfolk: The Politics of Solidarity in Black Academia

17. In Defense of Remembering

The Encounter

The Value of Memory?

18. How Black Men Can Help Eradicate Gendered Abuse on University Campuses

Dehumanization through Gendered Abuse in a Zimbabwean University Lecture Room

Sex for Grades and the Lecture Room as a "Female Fear Factory"

Our Conduct as Male Students

Talking about It

19. Tracking Sexual Predators across Academic Institutions: Benefits and Limits of Informal Complaints and Recommendations for Change

My Story of an Abusive Personal Relationship with a Colleague

How Academia Harbors Abuse.

The Benefits and Limitations of Informal Resolutions

Recommendations for Inclusive Policy Changes

Sexual Harassment as Rape Culture

20. The LIEG's Complaint Collective: Reclaiming Academic Voices

Formation of LIEG and Its Complaint Collective

Research and Activism of the LIEG

21. Disrupting the Past as Prologue: Recognizing and Responding to Strategies and Tactics of Gendered Oppression

The Problem

Corporatization of the Academy

An Example

Power-Sharing and Design-Thinking

22. Feminist Secretaries: Silence, Authenticity, and Resistance in the Academy

Silence

Authenticity

Resistance

23. It Is Better to Speak: A Complaint Collective

Becoming a Collective

Naming Abuse

A Monument

Redacted Story

Afterword: "Heard as a Broken Record"

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Index.

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ISBN:

979-88-558-0198-9

OCLC:

1534194926