Surviving Sexism in Academia : Strategies for Feminist Leadership.

This edited collection contends that if women are to enter into leadership positions at equal levels with their male colleagues, then sexism in all its forms must be acknowledged, attended to, and actively addressed. This interdisciplinary collection Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership is part storytelling, part autoethnography, part action plan. The chapters document and analyze everyday sexism in the academy and offer up strategies for survival, ultimately 'lifting the veil" from the good old boys/business-as-usual culture that continues to pervade academia in both visible and less-visible forms, forms that can stifle even the most ambitious women in their careers. -- Amazon.com Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Figures and Tables Introduction: "I'm Afraid This Will Hurt Me": Addressing Sexism in Higher Education Acknowledgments Section 1 Mapping the Challenges Dis/Locations 1 Surviving Sexism in Academia: Identifying, Understanding, and Responding to Sexism in Academia 2 Remodeling Shared Governance: Feminist Decision Making and Resistance to Academic Neoliberalism 3 Exploring the Decision to Pursue a Career in Higher Education Administration: An Analysis of Gendered Constraints and Opportunities. 4 Do We Really Want the Flies that We Might Catch? Interrogating "Post-Feminist" Lessons for "Success"5 Understanding Leadership with Women Community College Executives 6 The Problem with the Phrase "Women and Minorities": Racism and Sexism Intersectionality for Black Women Faculty Disciplinary Contexts 7 STEM Education in Japan: Examining the Pipeline for Female Leadership 8 For the Love of the Feminist Killjoy: Solving Philosophy's Woman White Male Problem 9 Writing Gown: The Challenges of Making a New Artwork about Sexism in Academia 10 Suck It Up, Buttercup! Or, Why Cu*ts Leave STEM. 11 Beyond the Old Boys Club? Gender Relations at UW-Madison Geography from the 1970s to the Present12 From Feminized to Feminist Labor: Strategies for Creating Feminist Working Conditions in Composition 13 Surviving Sexism to Inspire Change: Stories and Reflections from Mothers on the Tenure Track Embodied Gender 14 On the Edge of Knowing: Microaggression and Epistemic Uncertainty as a Woman of Color 15 "I Have Always Felt Like a Trespasser": Life Histories from Latina Staff Members in Higher Education 16 Mother-Scholars: Thinking and Being in Higher Education. 17 Catcalled in the Cafeteria: Managing and Teaching through Sexism from Students18 Dress for Success: Dismantling Politics of Dress in Academia Section 2 Feminist Strategies for Action Changing Material Conditions 19 The Aftermath of Activism: Combating and Surviving Sexism at One Southern University 20 Professors and (M)Others: Smashing the "Maternal Wall" 21 Motherhood and Leadership in Academia: Getting Beyond Personal Survival Mode 22 Organic Mentorship: A Feminist Model to Support Scholars and Leaders. 23 Career Navigation of Female Leaders in Higher Education: The Importance of the Mentor-Protégé Relationship24 Mentoring Women in Technical Communication: Building Safe Spaces through an Affective Mentoring Model Changing Ideologies 25 "You Are Too Blunt, Too Ambitious, Too Confident": Cultural Messages that Undermine Women's Paths to Advancement and Leadership in Academia and Beyond 26 Writing to Resist: Storying the Self and Audit Culture in Higher Education 27 Rhetorics of Interruption: Navigating Sexism in the Academy 28 Overcoming the Department Bully: Women, Men, and Collaboration. Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction: "I'm Afraid This Will Hurt Me": Addressing Sexism in Higher Education -- Acknowledgments -- Section 1 Mapping the Challenges -- Dis/Locations -- 1 Surviving Sexism in Academia: Identifying, Understanding, and Responding to Sexism in Academia -- 2 Remodeling Shared Governance: Feminist Decision Making and Resistance to Academic Neoliberalism -- 3 Exploring the Decision to Pursue a Career in Higher Education Administration: An Analysis of Gendered Constraints and Opportunities -- 4 Do We Really Want the Flies that We Might Catch? Interrogating "Post-Feminist" Lessons for "Success" -- 5 Understanding Leadership with Women Community College Executives -- 6 The Problem with the Phrase "Women and Minorities": Racism and Sexism Intersectionality for Black Women Faculty -- Disciplinary Contexts -- 7 STEM Education in Japan: Examining the Pipeline for Female Leadership -- 8 For the Love of the Feminist Killjoy: Solving Philosophy's Woman White Male Problem -- 9 Writing Gown: The Challenges of Making a New Artwork about Sexism in Academia -- 10 Suck It Up, Buttercup! Or, Why Cu*ts Leave STEM -- 11 Beyond the Old Boys Club? Gender Relations at UW-Madison Geography from the 1970s to the Present -- 12 From Feminized to Feminist Labor: Strategies for Creating Feminist Working Conditions in Composition -- 13 Surviving Sexism to Inspire Change: Stories and Reflections from Mothers on the Tenure Track -- Embodied Gender -- 14 On the Edge of Knowing: Microaggression and Epistemic Uncertainty as a Woman of Color -- 15 "I Have Always Felt Like a Trespasser": Life Histories from Latina Staff Members in Higher Education -- 16 Mother-Scholars: Thinking and Being in Higher Education -- 17 Catcalled in the Cafeteria: Managing and Teaching through Sexism from Students 18 Dress for Success: Dismantling Politics of Dress in Academia -- Section 2 Feminist Strategies for Action -- Changing Material Conditions -- 19 The Aftermath of Activism: Combating and Surviving Sexism at One Southern University -- 20 Professors and (M)Others: Smashing the "Maternal Wall" -- 21 Motherhood and Leadership in Academia: Getting Beyond Personal Survival Mode -- 22 Organic Mentorship: A Feminist Model to Support Scholars and Leaders -- 23 Career Navigation of Female Leaders in Higher Education: The Importance of the Mentor-Protégé Relationship -- 24 Mentoring Women in Technical Communication: Building Safe Spaces through an Affective Mentoring Model -- Changing Ideologies -- 25 "You Are Too Blunt, Too Ambitious, Too Confident": Cultural Messages that Undermine Women's Paths to Advancement and Leadership in Academia and Beyond -- 26 Writing to Resist: Storying the Self and Audit Culture in Higher Education -- 27 Rhetorics of Interruption: Navigating Sexism in the Academy -- 28 Overcoming the Department Bully: Women, Men, and Collaboration -- 29 Reembodying the Positionality of MiddleMAN Administrators in Higher Education -- 30 We Are All Needed: Feminist Rhetorical Strategies for Building Trust among Colleagues -- 31 The Bullying We Don't Talk About: Women Bullying Women in the Academy -- 32 Infographic -- List of Contributors -- Index