ABSTRACT
This chapter describes specific strategies designed to move feminized labor toward feminist labor—labor that relies on disciplinary expertise and supports changing working conditions. These strategies build on and develop from feminist theory and practice, research on women in the professions, and disciplinary scholarship, specifically their discussions of collaboration, advocacy, and support. Research on women in the professions shows that women are already more likely to develop others and are more likely to develop women: "73% of women who were developing others were developing female talent compared to only 30% of men who were developing female talent". The chapter also provides outline deliberate actions that can challenge and destabilize traditional academic value systems and privilege the disciplinary expertise of Composition in its institutional contexts. From the feminization of Composition to the feminization of service and labor, scholars have identified and analyzed labor conditions that contribute to gender and disciplinary inequities.
