(Re)Birthing the Feminine in Academe: Creating Spaces of Motherhood in Patriarchal Contexts

by Linda Henderson

Book Overview

This book engages expansively with the concept of motherhood in academia, to offer insights into re-imagining a more responsive higher education. Written collaboratively as international, interdisciplinary and intergenerational collectives, the editors and contributors use various ways of understanding 'motherhood' to draw attention to - and disrupt - the masculine structures currently defining women's lives and work in the academy. Shifting the focus...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030382109
• ISBN13: 9783030382100
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"