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Critical reflections and politics on advancing women in the academy / Taima Moeke-Pickering, Ann Pegoraro, and Sheila Cote-Meek, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moeke-Pickering, Taima, 1961- author.
- Series:
- Advances in religious and cultural studies (ARCS) book series.
- Advances in religious and cultural studies (ARCS) book series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in higher education.
- Women college teachers.
- Women college administrators.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxix, 243 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
- Place of Publication:
- Hershey, Pennsylvania : Information Science Reference, [2020]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- "This book seeks to make the Academy responsive and inclusive for women advancement and sustainable empowerment strategies by broadening the understanding of why women in the Academy are overlooked in leadership positions, why there is a pay parity deficit, and what is being done to change the situation"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Section 1. Experiences and insight shared by faculty (full professors, associate professors, assistant professors, and head sport coaches). Chapter 1. Women in academia matter: indigenous worldviews and women movements activism ; Chapter 2. Resisting exotic puppetry: experiences of indigenous women leadership in the academy ; Chapter 3. A feminist autoethography of academic performance on Twitter: community, creativity, and comedy ; Chapter 4. "I didn't come to play": Pasifika women in the academy ; Chapter 5. A pathway to "becoming": stories about indigenization from one indigenous health scholar ; Chapter 6. The emergence, experiences, and empowerment of women administrators, coaches, and athletes ; Chapter 7. Indigenous killjoys negotiating the labyrinth of dis/mistrust ; Chapter 8. Law, equality, and entrepreneurship through a gendered lens: bridging the gap between academia, legislature, and politics
- Section 2. Academic administrative roles (president, vice-president, acting vice-president, research assistant vice-president graduate studies, dean, and manager). Chapter 9. Intergenerational indigenous resilience and navigating academic administration ; Chapter 10. "I didn't expect YOU to be the university president!": a critical reflection on three decades of women's leadership in Canadian academia ; Chapter 11. Breaking the ice: reflections on our leadership expedition to Antarctica with 99 women in STEMM ; Chapter 12. An intersectional love story: when gender, culture, and sexuality meet.
- Notes:
- "Premier Reference Source" -- Front cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (IGI Global InfoSci-Books, viewed on September 18, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 9781799836209
- 1799836207
- OCLC:
- 1138996513
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