Civic Engagement as Empowerment: Sharing Our Names and Remembering Our Her-Stories—Resisting Ofuniversity

Linda Henderson; Alison L Black; Gail Crimmins; Janice K Jones

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04852-5_16

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Civic Engagement as Empowerment: Sharing Our Names and Remembering Our Her-Stories—Resisting Ofuniversity

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Civic Engagement as Empowerment: Sharing Our Names and Remembering Our Her-Stories—Resisting Ofuniversity

Linda Henderson, Alison L Black, Gail Crimmins and Janice K Jones

Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy, pp.287-304

Palgrave Macmillan

2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04852-5_16

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academic surrogacy

The handmaid's tale

collective biography

feminism

UniSC Diversity Area - Gender Equity

In this chapter, The Women Who Write speak from their experiences as female academics to expose and collectively resist the competitive, masculinised, individualising culture of academia. Drawing upon the dystopic narratives of surrogacy, surveillance, and survival in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, this chapter creates a fertile space for sharing entangled stories and complex truths: women walking with/in the university, but not Ofuniversity. Against global representations of a corporatised academe, this chapter speaks-back to the academic machine, asserting that women are more-than productive surrogates, even as they are overlooked/unnamed. By speaking their names and human stories, the authors revision academia and reposition themselves not as the public possession of academia but as beings Ofearth, Ofourselves, and Ofeachother.

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Title: Civic Engagement as Empowerment: Sharing Our Names and Remembering Our Her-Stories—Resisting Ofuniversity
Authors: Linda Henderson (Author) - Monash University
Alison L Black (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
Gail Crimmins (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - School of Education
Janice K Jones (Author) - University of Southern Queensland
Contributors: Gail Crimmins (Editor)
Publication details: Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy, pp.287-304
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date published: 2019
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-04852-5_16
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries; School of Education - Legacy; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451360102621
Output Type: Book chapter

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