Description
Book SynopsisMentored to Perfection: The Masculine Terms of Success in Academia examines how mentoring programs between women tend to replicate the hierarchical relations of patriarchy that they are meant to dismantle. Simone Dennis and Alison Behie argue that, while paradigmatic mentoring programs look like networking support services for neophytes, these mentorships nevertheless replicate the very institutional structures they seek to uproot. The generosity that senior women show to junior women as they share their tips and offer their support ironically obscures participants’ involvement in debt relations and the biases of replicating a particular type of success. This book considers the possibilities for disrupting our tendency to reproduce ourselves in the masculine terms of success.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Orienting Concepts and Ideas
Chapter 2. Know Imitate Thine Enemy
Chapter 3. Interlude: A Short Note about Secret Transparencies
Chapter 4. Haunted by the Undead Patriarchy: New Buildings, SWAN Songs, and Secrets
Chapter 5. Payback Does Not Appear to be a Bitch (but It Is)
