Lived Experiences of Women in Academia : Metaphors, Manifestos and Memoir

"Lived Experiences of Women in Academia 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. Chapters 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. Lived Experiences of Women in Academia aims to liberate thinking around the life of a female academic through collaborative storytelling and discussion, to encourage new conversations and connections between women in academia across the globe"--Provided by publisher Uncreatively writing women's lives in academia / Eve Mayes -- Mothers, scholars and feminists : inside and outside the Australian academic system / Petra Bueskens and Kim Toffoletti -- The lecturer's new clothes : an academic life, in textiles / Frances Kelly -- You're doctor what? : challenges for creative arts research in a culture of binaries / Corinna Di Niro and Amelia Walker -- "Going to see" : an academic woman researching her own kind / Barbara Grant -- "If these walls could talk" : looking in, walking out, and reimagining a broken system / Rachael Dwyer and Libby Flynn -- Motherhood and academia : a story of bodily fluids and going with the flow / Agnes Bosanquet -- Taking a trip through and with the sisterhood of the global south : storying our experiences as female academics in Indonesia and Australia / Siti Muflichah, Dewi Andriani and Elizabeth Mackinlay -- In the spirit of shared solidarity : women in academia and transformation / Jennifer Mays -- Playing in the corridors of academia / Eva Nislev and Melissa Cain -- An academic career : looking back and looking forward / Jo Ann Walton -- Identity and inclusion in academia : voices of migrant women / Emsie Arnoldi and Rachelle Bosua -- Trauma in the academy / Anonymous -- A woman in academia : and what about the children? / Livia Holden -- When the whistleblower is a woman / Melissa Burchard and Keya Maitra -- Being a mother, becoming a university teacher : traversing the terrain to knowing oneself / Rosie Bruce -- Metaphors for women's experiences of early career academia : Buffy, Alice, and Frankenstein's creature / Deborah M. Netolicky, Naomi Barnes, and Amanda Heffernan -- The double life of a casual academic / Gail Crimmins Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of figures 9 List of contributors 10 Preface 15 1 Uncreatively writing women’s lives in academia 20 2 Mothers, scholars and feminists: inside and outside the Australian academic system 32 3 The lecturer’s new clothes: an academic life, in textiles 42 4 You’re doctor what? Challenges for creative arts research in a culture of binaries 51 5 “Going to see”: an academic woman researching her own kind 64 6 ‘If these walls could talk’: looking in, walking out, and reimagining a broken system 74 7 Motherhood and academia: a story of bodily fluids and going with the flow 84 8 Taking a trip through and with the sisterhood of the Global South: storying our experiences as female academics in Indonesia and Australia 95 9 In the spirit of shared solidarity: women in academia and transformation 106 10 Playing in the corridors of academia 117 11 An academic career: looking back and looking forward 128 12 Identity and inclusion in academia: voices of migrant women 138 13 Trauma in the academy 149 14 A woman in academia: . . . and what about the children? 159 15 Not a matter of will: a narrative and cross-cultural exploration of maternal ambivalence 171 16 Being a mother, becoming a university teacher: traversing the terrain to knowing oneself 180 17 Metaphors for women’s experiences of early career academia: Buffy, Alice, and Frankenstein’s creature 190 18 The double life of a casual academic 200 Afterword 209 Index 212 Lived Experience of Women in Academia is collection of stories that engages research focused on making meaning through self-study and autoethnography. Metaphor, manifesto and memoir are used by women across disciplines and across countries, as ways to represent the complex and unique dimensionalities of life and work.