ABSTRACT
Persistent lower rates of publication for women academics in comparison with their male colleagues have recently drawn increased attention from the research community. This attention has led to narratives that tend to approach women's scholarship from the perspective of deficit, overlooking women's agency and the transformative power of their scholarship. This chapter seeks to counter these narratives by describing a study that explored how women academics participate in the generation of knowledge. For this study, the interviews with women faculty in the social sciences were analyzed through the frame of feminist standpoint theory to determine how participants either adhered to or subverted the norms of academic scholarship in their published work. Rather than investigating deficits in women's publication, this chapter describes how participants created space for their perspectives through research and publication. The chapter concludes with an interrogation of common deficit-related myths associated with women's scholarship.
