Mentored to Perfection

The Masculine Terms of Success in Academia

AvSimone Dennis,Alison Behie

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Mentored to Perfection: The Masculine Terms of Success in Academia examines how mentoring programs between women tend to replicate the hierarchical relations of patriarchy that they are meant to dismantle. Simone Dennis and Alison Behie argue that, while paradigmatic mentoring programs look like networking support services for neophytes, these mentorships nevertheless replicate the very institutional structures they seek to uproot. The generosity that senior women show to junior women as they share their tips and offer their support ironically obscures participants’ involvement in debt relations and the biases of replicating a particular type of success. This book considers the possibilities for disrupting our tendency to reproduce ourselves in the masculine terms of success.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-11-15
Mått:151 x 228 x 13 mm
Vikt:286 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:178
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666914795

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Pedagogik inom Psykologi och pedagogik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Simone Dennis is associate dean for Research Engagement, Impact and Innovation in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at Australian National University.Alison Behie is head of the school of archaeology and anthropology at Australian National University.

Recensioner i media

A challenging and persuasive provocation. The current “neoliberal” university is a patriarchal institution in which success is measured according to an “economy of knowledge” that favours men. What is called for, Simone Dennis and Alison Behie argue, in a lucid analysis closely tied to Australian ethnography, is mentorship as a form of what Roslyn Diprose calls “corporeal generosity,” whereby the mentee does not emulate or imitate the mentor but both open themselves to the radical alterity intrinsic to the embodied identity and capability of each. Through such sharing, the order of the same might be transcended and caring institutional forms introduced in which otherness—of women, of the precariat, of individuality itself—is recognised and respected.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Orienting Concepts and IdeasChapter 2. Know Imitate Thine EnemyChapter 3. Interlude: A Short Note about Secret TransparenciesChapter 4. Haunted by the Undead Patriarchy: New Buildings, SWAN Songs, and SecretsChapter 5. Payback Does Not Appear to be a Bitch (but It Is)