Women Activating Agency in Academia

<p><em>Women Activating Agency in Academia</em> seeks to create and expand safe spaces for scholarly professional and personal stories and <i>assemblages of agency</i>. It provides readers with the opportunity to connect with the strategies women are using to navigate academe and the core values linked to trust relationship wellbeing and ethics of care they live by. </p><p></p><p>The collection offers the stories of women academics from around the globe and across disciplines and showcases their efforts to meaningfully listen and converse in order to resist self-audit and diminished identities. Reflections come from a range of responsive personal and aesthetic techniques including writing groups guided autobiography auto-ethnography collective activism and slow scholarship. Chapters engage with themes and ideas such as agency neoliberalism ontological security androcentricity identity and collegial support which manifest in unique ways for female academics. </p><p></p><p>The focus in this volume is what really matters to women in the academy as they share their efforts to ‘be’ themselves in their work to ‘care for themselves and others’ and to ‘count what isn’t counted’. It aims to prove how collaborative storytelling and discussion can empower female academics to preserve and achieve these ambitions. </p><p></p>