Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan
Book cover

Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy

Higher Education, Gender and Intersectionality

  • Book
  • © 2019

Overview

Editors:
  1. Gail Crimmins

    1. School of Communication and Creative Industries, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Australia

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Proposes innovative approaches to challenging and resisting sexism in the academy
  • Explores diverse and intersectional perspectives to outline tools for resistance that can be deployed by individuals as well as collectives and organisations
  • Combines curriculum and research approaches with case studies to expose and satirise sexism in the academy

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education (GED)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 119.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 159.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Initiatives and Practices of Resistance That Support Institutions, as Well as Individual Academics, to Identify and Address Sexual Disadvantage in the Academy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. A Structural Account of Inequality in the International Academy: Why Resistance to Sexism Remains Urgent and Necessary

      • Gail Crimmins
      Pages 3-16

    3. Moving Through the World as a Woman

      • Ruth Pearce
      Pages 17-34

    4. An Examination of the Athena SWAN Initiatives in the UK: Critical Reflections

      • Maria Tsouroufli
      Pages 35-54

    5. Fellowship as Resistance: How Women Educators in Higher Education Benefit from International Professional Recognition

      • Elizabeth (Beth) Beckmann
      Pages 55-73

    6. Explorations on the Nature of Resistance: Challenging Gender-Based Violence in the Academy

      • Ruth Lewis, Sundari Anitha
      Pages 75-94

    7. Building Connections Across Difference: Faculty Mentoring as Institutional Change

      • Heather Laube
      Pages 95-113

    8. First Nations’ Women in the Academy: Disrupting and Displacing the White Male Gaze

      • Sandy O’Sullivan
      Pages 115-127

    9. (Hyper)Visible ‘Women’/Invisible (Dalit) Women: Challenging the Elusive Sexism in Indian Universities

      • Anagha Tambe
      Pages 129-149

  3. An Examination of Feminist and Critical Pedagogies That Resist the Reproduction of Masculine Knowledge Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
      Download chapter PDF

    2. n.paradoxa’s MOOC (Mass Open Online Course): A Case Study in Feminist Online Pedagogies

      • Katy Deepwell
      Pages 153-168

    3. Civic Engagement as Empowerment: Theater, Public Art, and Spoken Word as Roads to Activism

      • Kay Siebler
      Pages 169-184

  4. Approaches to Research That Offer an Alternative to Androcentric Research Practices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Genders at Work: Gender as a Geography of Power in the Academy

      • Kate Carruthers Thomas
      Pages 187-206

    3. Collective Biography as a Feminist Methodology

      • Susanne Gannon, Marnina Gonick
      Pages 207-224

    4. Recipes on Arts-Based Research Practice as a Form of Feminist Resistance

      • Briony Lipton, Gail Crimmins
      Pages 225-245

    5. Working Across/Within/Through Academic Conventions of Writing a Ph.D.: Stories About Writing a Feminist Thesis

      • Anna R. Moxnes
      Pages 247-265

  5. Case Studies of Women Collectives Which Expose, Satirise and Subvert Sexism in the Academy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-267
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Punk Feminism and #FEAS: A Low-Brow Protest of Academic Sexism

      • Mindy Blaise, Linda Knight, Emily Gray
      Pages 269-286
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This book harnesses the expertise of women academics who have constructed innovative approaches to challenging existing sexual disadvantage in the academy. Countering the prevailing postfeminist discourse, the contributors to this volume argue that sexism needs to be named in order to be challenged and resisted. Exploring a complex, intersectional and diverse arrangement of resistance strategies, the contributors outline useful tools to resist, subvert and identify sexist policy and practice that can be deployed by organisations and collectives as well as individuals. The volume analyses pedagogical, curriculum and research approaches as well as case studies which expose, satirise and subvert sexism in the academy: instead, embodied and slow scholarship as political tools of resistance are introduced. A call for action against the propagation of sexism and gender disadvantage in the academy, this important book will appeal to students and scholars of sexism in higher education as wellas all those committed to working towards gender e/quality.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Communication and Creative Industries, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Australia

    Gail Crimmins

About the editor

Gail Crimmins is Researcher at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Her research explores gender inequity in the academy and feminist, narrative and arts informed approaches to research.

Contributors: Gail Crimmins, Ruth Pearce, Maria Tsouroufli, Elizabeth Beckmann, Ruth Lewis, Sundari Anitha, Heather Laube, Sandy O’Sullivan, Anagha Tambe, Katy Deepwell, Kay Siebler, Kate Carruthers Thomas, Susanne Gannon, Marnina Gonick, Briony Lipton, Anna Rigmor Moxnes, #FEAS, The Women Who Write, The Res-Sisters
 



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy

  • Book Subtitle: Higher Education, Gender and Intersectionality

  • Editors: Gail Crimmins

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04852-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04851-8Published: 05 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04852-5Published: 23 January 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2524-6445

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-6453

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 342

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Gender and Education, Higher Education, Women's Studies, Gender Studies

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation