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(Re)birthing the Feminine in Academe: Creating Spaces of Motherhood in Patriarchal Contexts

By Susanne Garvis , Linda Henderson , Alison L. Black

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
ISBN
9783030382100, 9783030382117
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-38211-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7612666 bytes)
Series
Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
XXVI, 290\308
Time added
2020-08-30 06:11:09
Education; Gender and Education; Sociology of EducYouth and Aging

Description

This book engages expansively with the concept of motherhood in academia, to offer insights into re-imagining a more responsive higher education. Written collaboratively as international, interdisciplinary and intergenerational collectives, the editors and contributors use various ways of understanding ‘motherhood’ to draw attention to – and disrupt – the masculine structures currently defining women’s lives and work in the academy. Shifting the focus from patriarchal understandings of academe, the narratives embrace and champion feminist and feminine scholarship. The book invites the reader to question what can be conceived when motherhood is imagined more expansively, through lenses traditionally silenced or made invisible. This pioneering volume will be of interest and value to feminist scholars, as well as those interested in disrupting patriarchal academic structures.

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