{"product_id":"lived-experiences-of-women-in-academia-9781138551121","title":"Lived Experiences of Women in Academia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLived Experiences of Women in Academia\u003c\/em\u003e shares meaningful stories of women working in the academy, from numerous disciplines, backgrounds and countries, to unveil the complex and distinct dimensionalities they experience in their life and work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapters are written using a range of responsive, personal and aesthetic techniques, including metaphor, manifesto and memoir, with reflections inspired by textiles, online blogs and forums, theatre, creative writing, fiction and popular culture. They engage with themes and ideas including gender roles, family-making, work-life balance, motherhood, institutional violence and harassment and the self and identity, revealing how these uniquely manifest for women in academia. This collection takes account of the experiences of female academics from previous decades and the experiences of those to come, as well as those outside the academic system entirely. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eLived Experiences of Women in Academia aims to l\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of figures\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003ci\u003eList of contributors; Preface\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003cb\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 Uncreatively writing women’s lives in academia\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 Mothers, scholars and feminists: inside and outside the\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAustralian academic system\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 The lecturer’s new clothes: an academic life, in textiles\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 You’re doctor what? Challenges for creative arts research\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ein a culture of binaries\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e5 \"Going to see\": an academic woman researching her own kind\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e6 ‘If these walls could talk’: looking in, walking out, and\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ereimagining a broken system\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e7 Motherhood and academia: a story of bodily fluids and\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003egoing with the flow\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e8 Taking a trip through and with the sisterhood of the Global South: storying our experiences as female academics in Indonesia and Australia; Chapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e9 In the spirit of shared solidarity: women in academia and\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003etransformation\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e10 Playing in the corridors of academia\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e11 An academic career: looking back and looking forward\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e12 Identity and inclusion in academia: voices of migrant women\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e13 Trauma in the academy\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e14 A woman in academia: . . . and what about the children?\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e15 \u003ci\u003eNot \u003c\/i\u003ea matter of will: a narrative and cross-cultural\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eexploration of maternal ambivalence\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e16 Being a mother, becoming a university teacher: traversing\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ethe terrain to knowing oneself\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e17 Metaphors for women’s experiences of early career\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eacademia: Buffy, Alice, and Frankenstein’s creature\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e18 The double life of a casual academic\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAfterword; Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084560822615,"sku":"9781138551121","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138551121.jpg?v=1762206809","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lived-experiences-of-women-in-academia-9781138551121","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}