Daring to Lead with Feminism in Higher Education: Let It Blaze, Let It Blaze
Briony sat down at her desk, ready to begin the day. She sipped a piping hot cup of coffee to warm her hands, head and heart for the kind of thinking and feeling that her research work would demand. Her computer whirred and buzzed to life as she patiently
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Teaching Gender Volume 7 Series Editor Patricia Leavy USA Scope Teaching Gender publishes monographs, anthologies and reference books that deal centrally with gender and/or sexuality. The books are intended to be used in undergraduate and graduate classes across the disciplines. The series aims to promote social justice with an emphasis on feminist, multicultural and critical perspectives. Please email queries to the series editor at [email protected] International Editorial Board Tony E. Adams, Northeastern Illinois University, USA Paula Banerjee, University of Calcutta, India Nitza Berkovitch, Ben Gurion University, Israel Robin Boylorn, University of Alabama, USA Máiréad Dunne, University of Sussex, UK Mary Holmes, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Laurel Richardson, Ohio State University, Emerita, USA Sophie Tamas, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist Storying Our Experiences in Higher Education
Elizabeth Mackinlay The University of Queensland, Australia
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ISBN: 978-94-6300-676-7 (paperback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-677-4 (hardback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-678-1 (e-book)
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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING LIKE A FEMINIST
“As feminist issues fill social media and yet disappear from university curricula, this is a timely volume and an inspiring companion for any feminist scholar or teacher. Drawing on a wealth of feminist thinkers, Mackinlay documents the intimate realities of contemporary university life for feminists while creatively resisting the coercive forces to serve the Masters of the Academy. Always attentive to positionality and the embodied occupation of space, Mackinlay re-envisages how feminist knowledge can be articulated through her audacious and engaging mix of reflection, analysis, narrative, poetry, and line drawings. Her politics are playful and polemical, sobering and scintillating as she traces heartlines of writing, teaching and learning as a feminist in today’s academy. This is a refreshingly personal and powerfully collective analysis of doing feminism in hostile institutions. It will give heart to many.” – Alison Bartlett, Associate Professor, Gender Studies, The University of Western Australia, Perth “Searching for a way out of the ivory tower isolation, Elizabeth Mackinlay weaves a compelling narrative about the women academics fro
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