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This edited volume explores the diversities and complexities of women's experiences in higher education. Its emphasis on personal narratives provides a forum for topics not typically found in in print, such as mental illness, marital difficulties, and gender identity. The intersectional narratives afford typically disenfranchised women opportunities to share experiences in ways that de-center standard academic writing, while simultaneously making these stories accessible to a range of readers, both inside and outside higher education.
List of contents
Introduction.- Part I: The Superwoman Complex: The Challenges of Family Life for Women in the Academy.- Chapter 1. "I Would Never Let My Wife Do That": The Stories We Tell to Stay Afloat.- Chapter 2. Building a Compass: Leaving, Loss, and Daughterhood in Academia.- Chapter 3. The Undecided Narratives of Becoming-Mother, Becoming-Ph.D..- Chapter 4. Showing Up.- Chapter 5. Superwoman Goes Camping: The On-Going Quest to Right-Size My Life.- Part II: The Less Travelled and Less Valued Pathways: Examining the Devaluation of Women's Contributions to the Academy.- Chapter 6. There and Back and There Again: Notes on a Professional Journey.- Chapter 7. A Woman's Worth: Valuing Self, Risk, and (Re)vision.- Chapter 8. The Ancestral Double Dutch: From Cotton Myths to Future Dreams.- Part III: Vulnerability in the Academy: Women Explore Emotionality, Affect, and Self-Care.- Chapter 9. Honest and Uncomfortable: A Loving Look at My Exclusive Campus.- Chapter 10. Afro-Puerto Rican Primas: Identity, Pedagogy, and Solidarity.- Chapter 11. Lessons on Humility: White Women's Racial Allyship in Academia.- Chapter 12. Living with Three Strikes: Being a Trans Woman of Color in Education.- Part IV: The Importance of Intersectionality: Exploring the Diversities of Women in Academia.- Chapter 13. You Can't Un-See Color: A Ph.D., a Divorce, and The Wizard Of Oz.- Chapter 14. Doctor of Vulnerability and Resilience.- Chapter 15. Teaching and Learning Within Feminist Dystopias.- Chapter 16. Re-Introducing the Phoenix Within.
About the author
Stephanie Anne Shelton is Assistant Professor with the Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methods, and Counseling at the University of Alabama, USA.
Jill Ewing Flynn is Associate Professor with the Department of English at the University of Delaware, USA.
Tanetha Jamay Grosland is Assistant Professor with the Department of Leadership, Counseling, Adult, Career and Higher Education at the University of South Florida, USA.
Summary
This edited volume explores the diversities and complexities of women’s experiences in higher education. Its emphasis on personal narratives provides a forum for topics not typically found in in print, such as mental illness, marital difficulties, and gender identity. The intersectional narratives afford typically disenfranchised women opportunities to share experiences in ways that de-center standard academic writing, while simultaneously making these stories accessible to a range of readers, both inside and outside higher education.
