Feminist Mentoring in Academia

Feminist Mentoring in Academia explores the experiences of feminist mentoring in academia, offering autoethnographic and research-based accounts of support, struggle, and resilience. It highlights the importance of feminist mentoring between professor and student, junior faculty and tenured, and across academic careers, proposing best practices and critiquing traditional forms of mentoring.

Format: Hardback
Length: 268 pages
Publication date: 03 October 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Feminist Mentoring in Academia is a rich and diverse collection of autoethnographic and research-based accounts that explore the experiences of support, struggle, and resilience in the ivory tower. The contributors share their personal stories of how feminist mentoring begins, renews, thrives, and sometimes faces challenges. The book highlights the importance of feminist mentoring across different levels, including professor-student, junior faculty-tenured faculty, and repeated interactions. With contributions from scholars at various stages of their academic careers, the chapters offer valuable insights into best practices, personal narratives, and critiques of traditional mentoring approaches, while also envisioning a future for feminist mentorship. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in communication, feminist studies, higher education, and sociology.

Weight: 553g
Dimension: 238 x 160 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666917055