Book chapter
Breathing Room
(Re)birthing the Feminine in Academe: Creating Spaces of Motherhood in Patriarchal Contexts, pp.3-19
Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education, Palgrave Macmillan
2020
Abstract
This chapter is a collective autoethnography that reveals the messiness and fractured identities of (non)mothers and (non)researchers in and out of academic contexts. Luce Irigaray's writing on breath, interiority and autonomy brings together the reflections. In Between East and West, Irigaray (2002) has learnt "the importance of breathing in order to survive, to cure certain ills, and to attain detachment and autonomy" (p. 10). She explores "a sexuation of breathing" as a woman "by practicing, by listening (to myself), by reading, by awakening myself" (2002, p. 10). Collectively, the stories in this chapter reveal living with and letting go of the demands of academia and the complexities of caring for selves and others.
Details
- Title
- Breathing Room
- Authors
- Agnes Bosanquet (Author) - Macquarie UniversityJayde Cahir (Author) - Macquarie UniversityGail Crimmins (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Creative Industries - LegacyJanet Free (Author)Karina Luzia (Author) - Macquarie UniversityLilia Mantai (Author) - University of SydneyAnn Werner (Author) - Sodertorn University, Sweden
- Contributors
- Linda Henderson (Editor) - Monash UniversityAlison L Black (Editor) - University of the Sunshine CoastSusanne Garvis (Editor) - University of Gothenburg
- Publication details
- (Re)birthing the Feminine in Academe: Creating Spaces of Motherhood in Patriarchal Contexts, pp.3-19
- Series
- Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Date published
- 2020
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-38211-7_1; 10.1007/978-3-030-38211-7
- ISBN
- 9783030382117
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; School of Education - Legacy; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451324202621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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