ABSTRACT

This edited collection contends that if women are to enter into leadership positions at equal levels with their male colleagues, then sexism in all its forms must be acknowledged, attended to, and actively addressed. This interdisciplinary collection—Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership—is part storytelling, part autoethnography, part action plan. The chapters document and analyze everyday sexism in the academy and offer up strategies for survival, ultimately 'lifting the veil" from the good old boys/business-as-usual culture that continues to pervade academia in both visible and less-visible forms, forms that can stifle even the most ambitious women in their careers.

section 1|185 pages

Mapping the Challenges

section |64 pages

Dis/Locations

chapter 1|8 pages

Surviving Sexism in Academia

Identifying, Understanding, and Responding to Sexism in Academia

chapter 2|16 pages

Remodeling Shared Governance

Feminist Decision Making and Resistance to Academic Neoliberalism

chapter 3|9 pages

Exploring the Decision to Pursue a Career in Higher Education Administration

An Analysis of Gendered Constraints and Opportunities

chapter 4|8 pages

Do We Really Want the Flies that We Might Catch?

Interrogating “Post-Feminist” Lessons for “Success”

chapter 6|10 pages

The Problem with the Phrase “Women and Minorities”

Racism and Sexism Intersectionality for Black Women Faculty

section |77 pages

Disciplinary Contexts

chapter 7|11 pages

STEM Education in Japan

Examining the Pipeline for Female Leadership

chapter 8|9 pages

For the Love of the Feminist Killjoy

Solving Philosophy’s Woman White Male Problem

chapter 9|9 pages

Writing Gown

The Challenges of Making a New Artwork about Sexism in Academia

chapter 12|9 pages

From Feminized to Feminist Labor

Strategies for Creating Feminist Working Conditions in Composition

chapter 13|8 pages

Surviving Sexism to Inspire Change

Stories and Reflections from Mothers on the Tenure Track

section |41 pages

Embodied Gender

chapter 14|8 pages

On the Edge of Knowing

Microaggression and Epistemic Uncertainty as a Woman of Color

chapter 15|8 pages

“I Have Always Felt Like a Trespasser”

Life Histories from Latina Staff Members in Higher Education

chapter 16|8 pages

Mother-Scholars

Thinking and Being in Higher Education

chapter 17|7 pages

Catcalled in the Cafeteria

Managing and Teaching through Sexism from Students

chapter 18|8 pages

Dress for Success

Dismantling Politics of Dress in Academia

section 2|119 pages

Feminist Strategies for Action

section |52 pages

Changing Material Conditions

chapter 19|9 pages

The Aftermath of Activism

Combating and Surviving Sexism at One Southern University

chapter 20|8 pages

Professors and (M)Others

Smashing the “Maternal Wall”

chapter 21|8 pages

Motherhood and Leadership in Academia

Getting Beyond Personal Survival Mode

chapter 22|9 pages

Organic Mentorship

A Feminist Model to Support Scholars and Leaders

chapter 23|8 pages

Career Navigation of Female Leaders in Higher Education

The Importance of the Mentor-Protégé Relationship

chapter 24|8 pages

Mentoring Women in Technical Communication

Building Safe Spaces through an Affective Mentoring Model

section |65 pages

Changing Ideologies

chapter 25|7 pages

“You Are Too Blunt, Too Ambitious, Too Confident”

Cultural Messages that Undermine Women’s Paths to Advancement and Leadership in Academia and Beyond

chapter 26|9 pages

Writing to Resist

Storying the Self and Audit Culture in Higher Education

chapter 27|11 pages

Rhetorics of Interruption

Navigating Sexism in the Academy

chapter 28|7 pages

Overcoming the Department Bully

Women, Men, and Collaboration

chapter 30|9 pages

We Are All Needed

Feminist Rhetorical Strategies for Building Trust among Colleagues

chapter 31|8 pages

The Bullying We Don’t Talk About

Women Bullying Women in the Academy

chapter 32|2 pages

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