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Global Feminist Autoethnographies bears witness to our displacements, disruptions, and distress as tenured faculty, faculty on temporary contracts, graduate students, and people connected to academia during COVID-19.
List of contents
Introduction
Displacements, Disruptions and Distress: An Introduction to Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19
Part I: Disruptions
Introduction
Disruptions: Seismic Work and Life Shifts
1. The Pandemic and Our Entangled Lives: Experiencing the Many Relations of Ruling
2. The Inequality the Pandemic Unveils: Teaching and Learning in the Times of COVID
3. Disruption and Silence: Making Sense of Troubled Times Through Autoethnographic Writing
4. "Network Problems": An Autoethnographic Reflection of the Challenges of Undergraduate Education in Ghana in the Midst of a Global Pandemic
5. Navigating Empowerment and Activism in the Ivory Tower: A Co-autoethnography Gives Voice to Feminist Identity in a Criminal Justice Program
6. Writing on Self, Together: Collective Autoethnography as Praxis of Solidarity and Collective Care during the Pandemic
7. Labor Transformations in the Academy under COVID-19 Through the Lens of Intersectional Feminism: A Canadian Duoethnography
Part II: Distress
Introduction
Distress: Personal Trauma and Institutionalized Inequalities
8. Valuing a Feminist Ethics of Care in Pandemic Times
9. A Clinical Account of Breast Cancer Amid COVID-19
10. Gendered Life Transitions and the Blurring of Work-Family Boundaries during COVID-19
11. Trying My Best to Be My Badass Self: Parenting, Homeschooling, and Leading a Professional Feminist Academic Organization Amid a Pandemic
12. Invoking Abuelita Epistemologies for Academic Transformation in the Coronavirus Age: Autoethnographic Reflections from a Motherscholar Collective
13. An Autoethnography from a Student and Underpaid Employee
14. Black Women, Work, and COVID-19: Reflections on Navigating Graduate School, Work, Motherhood and Relationships During the COVID-19 Pandemic
15. On the Margins of Hyperinvisibility and Hypervisibility: The Paradox of Being an Asian American During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Part III: Displacements
Introduction
Displacements: Transnational Realities and Splintered Lives
16. One Virus, Two Worlds: A Taiwanese Queer Stranger's "World"-Traveling and Loving in the COVID U.S.
17. Transnational Families, Welfare States, and Marriage Rules in the Time of COVID-19
18. COVID-19: Lived Realities, Reflections, and Analysis
19. Knitting an Autoethnography
20. Disorientation, Disbelief, Distance
21. "Salaam, Hamvatan-e Aziz": Solidarity in the Time of Corona
22. (At) Home in Crisis
Conclusion: Reflections on the Pandemic from a Southern Feminist Scholar
Postscript: The Pandemic World in 2021
About the author
Melanie Heath is Associate Professor of Sociology at McMaster University. President, Research Committee on Women, Gender, and Society, International Sociological Association.
Akosua K. Darkwah is Associate Professor of Sociology and current chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Ghana. Managing editor, Ghana Journal of Sociology and Anthropology.
Josephine Beoku-Betts is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Sociology at Florida Atlantic University. Past President, Sociologists for Women in Society.
Bandana Purkayastha is Professor of Sociology and Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. Executive Committee Member, International Sociological Association.
Summary
Global Feminist Autoethnographies bears witness to our displacements, disruptions, and distress as tenured faculty, faculty on temporary contracts, graduate students, and people connected to academia during COVID-19.
