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(Re)Birthing the Academy: Unruly Daughters Striving for Feminist Futures
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(Re)Birthing the Academy: Unruly Daughters Striving for Feminist Futures

Catherine Manathunga, Barbara Grant, Frances Kelly, Arwen Raddon and Jisun Jung
(Re)birthing the Feminine in Academe: Creating Spaces of Motherhood in Patriarchal Contexts, pp.249-268
Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education, Palgrave Macmillan
2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38211-7_10
Appears in  UniSC Diversity and Inclusion Research Collection
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university histories women academics mothers feminism children on campus UniSC Diversity Area - Gender Equity UniSC Diversity Area - Life Stages
In this chapter, the authors argue for the (re)birthing of the academy in ways that would support academic women in their responsibilities for the care of others. They explore how the two institutions of the university and motherhood have been constructed without reference to women/mothers. They then fast forward to the present where women and mothers are present within academe. This sets the scene for four vignettes of the kinds of university the authors, as feminist academics, dream of giving birth to: a university that is more human, more interconnected in time and space, more organic, more family-friendly. By bringing their children and grandchildren into their workspaces, normalising motherhood within academic life, and challenging dominant discriminatory practices, they begin to live this future university.

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