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Feminism and Intersectionality in Academia

Women’s Narratives and Experiences in Higher Education

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Editors:
  1. Stephanie Anne Shelton

    1. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA

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  2. Jill Ewing Flynn

    1. University of Delaware, Newark, USA

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  3. Tanetha Jamay Grosland

    1. University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

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  • Explores the diversities and complexities of women’s experiences in higher education and women’s hidden and suppressed narratives relating to their experiences in academia
  • Works to contextualize the minimizations of women’s emotions within socio-political contexts and proposes to theorize the importance of women’s emotional experiences and the ways that those experiences might reshape academia
  • Argues that diversities present a meaningful and cohesive overall narrative of the complexities of womanhood in academia

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: The Moments That Became a Book—The Need for Intersectional Women’s Narratives in Academia

    • Stephanie Anne Shelton, Jill Ewing Flynn, Tanetha Jamay Grosland
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Superwoman Complex: The Challenges of Family Life for Women in the Academy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. “I Would Never Let My Wife Do That”: The Stories We Tell to Stay Afloat

      • Amy Tondreau
      Pages 15-23

    3. Building a Compass: Leaving, Loss, and Daughterhood in Academia

      • Maureen A. Flint
      Pages 25-36

    4. The Undecided Narratives of Becoming-Mother, Becoming-Ph.D.

      • Kelly W. Guyotte
      Pages 37-48

    5. Showing Up

      • Sarah R. Hick
      Pages 49-60

    6. Superwoman Goes Camping: The On-Going Quest to Right-Size My Life

      • Sharon I. Radd
      Pages 61-72

  4. The Less Traveled and Less Valued Pathways: Examining the Devaluation of Women’s Contributions to the Academy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. There and Back and There Again: Notes on a Professional Journey

      • Cheryl R. Richardson
      Pages 75-84

    3. A Woman’s Worth: Valuing Self, Risk, and (Re)vision

      • Tanetha Jamay Grosland
      Pages 85-94

    4. The Ancestral Double Dutch: From Cotton Myths to Future Dreams

      • Stephanie P. Jones
      Pages 95-99

  5. The Importance of Intersectionality: Exploring the Diversities of Women in the Academy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Honest and Uncomfortable: A Loving Look at My Exclusive Campus

      • Lisa M. Dembouski
      Pages 103-116

    3. Afro-Puerto Rican Primas: Identity, Pedagogy, and Solidarity

      • Erica R. Davila, Ann M. Aviles
      Pages 117-130

    4. Lessons on Humility: White Women’s Racial Allyship in Academia

      • Daniela Gachago
      Pages 131-144

    5. Living with Three Strikes: Being a Transwoman of Color in Education

      • Aryah O. S. Lester
      Pages 145-152

  6. Vulnerability in the Academy: Women Explore Emotionality, Affect, and Self-Care

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. You Can’t Un-See Color: A Ph.D., A Divorce, and The Wizard of Oz

      • Meghan E. Barnes
      Pages 155-166

    3. Doctor of Vulnerability and Resilience

      • Janine de Novais
      Pages 167-178
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About this book

This edited volume explores the diversities and complexities of women’s experiences in higher education. Its emphasis on personal narratives provides a forum for topics not typically found in in print, such as mental illness, marital difficulties, and gender identity. The intersectional narratives afford typically disenfranchised women opportunities to share experiences in ways that de-center standard academic writing, while simultaneously making these stories accessible to a range of readers, both inside and outside higher education.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA

    Stephanie Anne Shelton

  • University of Delaware, Newark, USA

    Jill Ewing Flynn

  • University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

    Tanetha Jamay Grosland

About the editors

Stephanie Anne Shelton is Assistant Professor with the Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methods, and Counseling at the University of Alabama, USA.


Jill Ewing Flynn is Associate Professor with the Department of English at the University of Delaware, USA.


Tanetha Jamay Grosland is Assistant Professor with the Department of Leadership, Counseling, Adult, Career and Higher Education at the University of South Florida, USA.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Feminism and Intersectionality in Academia

  • Book Subtitle: Women’s Narratives and Experiences in Higher Education

  • Editors: Stephanie Anne Shelton, Jill Ewing Flynn, Tanetha Jamay Grosland

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90590-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90589-1Published: 12 July 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08049-5Published: 26 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90590-7Published: 29 June 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 210

  • Topics: Gender and Education, Higher Education, Sociology of Education

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