Feminists reclaim mentorship : an anthology / edited by Nancy K. Miller and Tahneer Oksman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Nancy K., 1941- editor.

Contributor:

Oksman, Tahneer, editor.

Series:

SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.

SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mentoring.

Feminism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages).

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Feminists revisit their mixed experiences of mentoring and being mentored to reclaim mentorship as a project for new generations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Mutual Engagements / Nancy K. Miller and Tahneer Oksman

Part I. Two-Way Streets: Finding Mentors/Becoming Mentors

Rosemarie's hands / Rachel Adams

Tears, idle tears: mentoring English graduate students from 1973 to 2010 / Susan Gubar

The making of an intellectual: mentoring, mothering, and a Black feminist journey / Michele Faith Wallace

When am I supposed to stop asking you for advice? Hillary Chute

Mentorship: by any means necessary / Sharifa Hampton

The accidental mentor / Jennifer Crewe

Can a therapist be a mentor? / Kamy Wicoff

The reluctant writer: looking back on my mentors / Sarah Glazer

"That is where I felt most myself" : a conversation with Sarah Burnes about books, mentors, feminism, and mothers / Tahneer Oksman

How I came to America and discovered female mentors / Mikhal Dekel

Rainmaker: how a mentor transformed by destiny / Michelle Yasmine Valladares

Transformative adaptations: tracking Fay Gale as a teacher / Elizabeth Wood

Dear ant / Aoibheann Sweeney

Part II. Rearview Mirror: Mentoring at a Distance

Ready / Joy Ladin

Mentor ghosts / Siri Hustvedt

Writing letters to ghosts: on Meena Alexander's posthumous mentorship / Ashna Ali

Part III. The Traffic in Mentors: Horizontal Scripts

Widening the way: an interview with Dána-Ain Davis / Nancy K. Miller

Navigating distance and self-doubt through multiple mentors / Angela Francis

All the angry young women / Elizabeth Alsop

Mentoring and #MeToo / Leigh Gilmore

The mentor as mirror / Melissa Coss Aquino

Among friends / Sarah Chihaya

A chorus, not a monologue / Melissa Duclos

The group (text), or the small stuff / Sarah Blackwood

On leaning out / Laura Limonic

A special place in hell: women helping women and the professionalism of female mentorship / Angela Veronica Wong.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Miller, Nancy K. Feminists Reclaim Mentorship

ISBN:

9781438491868

1438491867

OCLC:

1493003615