Being an Early Career Feminist Academic Global Perspectives, Experiences and Challenges

Being an Early Career Feminist Academic Global Perspectives, Experiences and Challenges / edited by Rachel Thwaites, Amy Pressland.

This book highlights the experiences of feminist early career researchers and teachers from an international perspective in an increasingly neoliberal academy. It offers a new angle on a significant and increasingly important discussion on the ethos of higher education and the sector's place in...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Thwaites, Rachel (Editor), Pressland, Amy (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Gender identity in education.
Higher education.
School management and organization.
School administration.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Being an Early Career Feminist Academic in a Changing Academy; Rachel Thwaites and Amy Pressland
  • PART I: INTRODUCING THE EARLY CAREER EXPERIENCE
  • Chapter 1. A Precarious Passion: Gendered and Age-Based Insecurity among Aspiring Academics in Australia; Lara McKenzie
  • Chapter 2. Navigating Gendered Expectations at the Margins of Feminism and Criminology; Olga Marques
  • PART II: AFFECT AND IDENTITIES: NEGOTIATING TENSIONS IN THE EARLY CAREER
  • Chapter 3. Academic, Woman, Mother: Negotiating Multiple Subjectivities during Early Career; Agnes Bosanquet
  • Chapter 4. Room for Confidence: Early Career Feminists in the English Department; Helena Goodwyn and Emily Jane Hogg
  • Chapter 5. "Are you One of Us, or One of Them?" An Autoethnography of a 'Hybrid' Feminist Researcher Bridging Two Worlds; Sophie Alkhaled
  • PART III: EXPLORING EXPERIENCES THROUGH INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGIES
  • Chapter 6. Exposing the 'Hidden Injuries' of Feminist Early Career Researchers: An Experiential Think Piece about Maintaining Feminist Identities; Anna Tarrant and Emily Cooper
  • Chapter 7. Reflecting Realities and Creating Utopias: early Career Feminists (un)Doing International Relations in Finland; Marjaana Jauhola and Saara Särmä
  • PART IV: WORK, NETWORKS AND SOCIAL CAPITAL: BUILDING THE ACADEMIC CAREER
  • Chapter 8. Challenges to Feminist Solidarity in the Era of New Public Management; Klara Regnö
  • Chapter 9. Inequality in Academia: The Way Social Connections Work; Irina Gewinner
  • Chapter 10. Feminist Work in Academia and Beyond; Órla Murray, Muireann Crowley, and Lena Wånggren
  • PART V: ENVISAGING FEMINIST FUTURES
  • Chapter 11. On Becoming 'Bad Subjects': Teaching to Transgress in Neoliberal education; Katherine Natanel
  • Chapter 12. Embracing Vulnerability?: Reflection on My Academic Journey as a Japanese Feminist Early Career Research Abroad; Misato Matsuoka
  • Chapter 13. "I'm an Early Career Feminist Academic: Get Me Out of Here?" Encountering and Resisting the Neoliberal Academy; The Res-Sisters
  • Conclusion: Final Thoughts and Future Directions; Rachel Thwaites and Amy Pressland.

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