This book explores the experiences and perspectives of female professors. Analysing the gendering of this process using various theoretical perspectives, this edited collection examines the active ‘making’ of careers, and how this has been possible. The editors and contributors cut across institutions, cultures and continents to seek to understand how women navigate the gendered process of becoming a professor, with each chapter applying a different theoretical or methodological approach to her experience. The chapters are not mere descriptions of career trajectories, but analytic narratives anchored within distinct theoretical and philosophical frameworks. In turn, they shed important light on how – and if – institutional structures and systems are adapting to move towards gender equality. Offering practical advice as well as thoughtful reflection, this book will be of especial interest to early career female academics.
Author(s): Rowena Murray, Denise Mifsud
Series: Palgrave Studies In Gender And Education
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 249
Tags: Higher Education, Female Professors, Career Advancement
Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: The Positioning and Making of Female Academics—A Review of the Literature (Denise Mifsud)....Pages 1-26
Being Tough, Being Humorous and Being Explicitly Feminist—The “Intrinsically Disordered Nature” of My Ways Around Academia (Isabel Menezes)....Pages 27-48
‘You Must Wait to Be Asked’: Career Advancement and the Maternal Body (Caroline Gatrell)....Pages 49-73
Babies Taught Me How to “Do” Academia: Crafting a Career in an Institution That Was Not Built for Mothers (Catherine M. Mazak)....Pages 75-87
Writing Myself into an Academic Career (Rowena Murray)....Pages 89-111
Academic Fluidity? An Unconventional Route to the Professoriate (Jackie Potter)....Pages 113-131
My Personal Journey on the Pathway of Resilience (Sarah Skerratt)....Pages 133-153
Actively Constructing Yourself as a Professor: After Appointment (Beverley Anne Yamamoto)....Pages 155-176
Mis-Making an Academic Career: Power, Discipline, Structures, and Practices (Devorah Kalekin-Fishman)....Pages 177-200
A Personal Journey of a Long and Winding Road to Professorial Status: An Alternative Pathway and the Challenges, Trials and Tribulations (Moira Lafferty)....Pages 201-215
How to Fall into a Career Trap (Without Even Realising) (Inger Mewburn)....Pages 217-220
Conclusion: The Process of Becoming a Woman Professor and Unbecoming Gender Equality: A Female Drama of Resistance (Denise Mifsud)....Pages 221-234
Back Matter ....Pages 235-241
