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Book SynopsisWomen Educators’ Experiences During COVID-19: On the Front Lines examines the gendered experiences, challenges, and rapid changes faced by women in higher education during COVID-19. The book’s chapters cover lived experiences ranging from graduate students navigating the pandemic to those grappling with balancing motherhood and the academy. Through these diverse perspectives, this edited collection explores the impact of the diversity and nuances of the feminine identity on navigating higher education during an international health crisis. Ultimately, contributors provide recommendations for best practices and suggestions for change for administrators, faculty, and policymakers to dismantle the academy as a male-dominated institution. Scholars of communication, gender studies, and higher education will find this book of particular interest.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Victoria McDermott, Amy R. May, Teresa Heinz Housel, Erica Knotts, Stevie M. Munz, Leandra H. Hernández
Part 1: Women’s Experiences
Chapter 1: The Never-ending Pandemic(s): A Narrative Analysis on Black Women Educators Dealing with COVID, Sexism, and Racism
Aisha Powell, Symone Campbell, and Ashley Leveille
Chapter 2: The Radical Specificity of COVID Autoethnographic MotherWriting
Patty Sotirin
Chapter 3: “I Want to be the Supporter, Not the Supported”: The Impact of Unreciprocated Caregiving on Women Faculty During COVID-19
Rachel L. Reilly
Chapter 4: Balancing Academic Mothers and Academic Scholars: Gender Imbalances in Service Loads in Academic Institutions
Chin-Chung Chao and Ming Xie
Chapter 5: The Soul of Working Women: Holistic Identity Challenges for Women Graduate Students During COVID-19
Lakelyn E. Taylor and Elaine Schnabel
Chapter 6: Stories of Effective and Ineffective Support for Women Faculty through Lockdowns, Wildfires, and Budget Cuts
Erica Knotts, Alena Ruggerio, and Isabella McCord
Chapter 7: :”I Don’t Have Ducks, They’re Not in a Line. I Have a Squirrels at a Rave”: Higher Education Administrators’ Meaning-Making of COVID-19
Victoria McDermott, and Olivia Truban
Part 2: COVID-19 Initiatives
Chapter 8: Deconstructing COVID-19 Pandemic Institutional Initiatives: Where Do Women Academics Fit?
Rita Daniels
Chapter 9: ”Asking Us to Do More With Less”: Academic Mother’s Muted Experiences During the “Shecession”
Megan Lambertz-Berndt and Anuraj Dhillon
Chapter 10: Pandemic Impact Statements: Challenges, Opportunities, and Considerations for Gender Equity in Academe
Dawn Culpepper and Sarah Kilmer
Part 3: Recommendations/Conclusion
Conclusion
Victoria McDermott, Amy R. May, Teresa Heinz Housel, Erica Knotts, Stevie M. Munz, Leandra H. Hernández
About the Editors
About the Contributors
