(Re)birthing the feminine in academe : creating spaces of motherhood in patriarchal contexts / Linda Henderson, Alison L. Black, Susanne Garvis, editors.

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This book engages expansively with the concept of motherhood in academia, to offer insights into re-imagining a more responsive higher education. Written collaboratively as international, interdisciplinary and intergenerational collectives, the editors and contributors use various ways of understand...

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Uniform Title:Palgrave studies in gender and education.
Other Authors: Henderson, Linda (Editor)
Black, Alison L. (Editor)
Garvis, Susanne (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Series:Palgrave studies in gender and education.
Subjects:
Women college teachers > Professional relationships.
Women in higher education.
Sex discrimination in higher education.
Physical Description:xxvi, 290 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • THEME I. Mothering bodies and sensations
  • Chapter 1. Breathing room; Agnes Bosanquet, Jayde Cahir, Gail Crimmins, Janet Free, Karina Luzia, Lilia Mantai and Ann Werner
  • Chapter 2. Embodied motherly research: Re-birthing sustenance through the common (im)material; Sarah Crinall and Anna Vladimirova
  • Chapter 3. Mothering bodies in unloving institutions; Louise Phillips, Helen Johnson, Sarah Misra and Agli Zazros-Orr
  • Chapter 4. Creating spaces of feminine possibilities in the academy; Sandy Farquhar and Justine O'Hara-Gregan
  • Chapter 5. (Re)claiming our soulful intuitive lives: Initiating wildish energy into the academy through story, dreaming and connecting with Mother Earth; Linda Henderson, Alison L. Black and Prasanna Srinivasan
  • Response: Mothering bodies and sensations: The sound of lamentation: Hearing maternal academic subjects; Alison Bartlett
  • THEME II. Mothering relations and vulnerabilities
  • Chapter 6. The imperceptible beingness of m/otherhood in academia; Anne B. Reinertsen, Bojana Gajic and Louise Thomas
  • Chapter 7. Mentoring in the academy between academic mothers; Tina Yngvesson, Susanne Garvis and Donna Pendergast
  • Chapter 8. The vulnerability of pregnancy and the motherhood myth; Liisa Uusimäki and Karmen Johansson
  • Chapter 9. Becoming-with as becoming-maternal
  • writing with our children and companion species: A poetic and visual autoethnographic portrayal of mothering assemblages; Alexandra Lasczik, Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, Bronte Cutcher, Remy Cutcher, Lily Cutter-Mackenzie and Finley Cutter-Knowles
  • Chapter 10. (Re)birthing the academy: Unruly daughters striving for feminist futures; Catherine Manathunga, Barbara Grant, Frances Kelly, Arwen Raddon and Jisun Jung
  • Response: Double-time: Motherhood and professorhood; Laurel Richardson.