Academic Women

A comprehensive overview of the wide-ranging experiences of women in academia. It includes viewpoints that to date have been too often silenced, and so presents refreshing accounts of different women’s experiences in academia employing an intersectional lens from all over the globe. Whilst similar barriers and difficulties are documented and charted, unexpected spaces of solidarity and resistances to patriarchy are also documented. This book helps to create a dialogue around an inclusive academia, that aims to reclaim academia for those that do not fit into stereotypical image of a white, middle-aged professor. * Rachel Palmén, Open University of Catalonia, Spain *Academic Women: Voicing Narratives of Gendered Experiences is a powerful resource that encourages us to think about collectives based on feminist assumptions of sorority and sisterhood, giving voice to marginalised experiences and bringing them into a theoretical realm … A reading of this book highlights its potential contribution to a more inclusive and equitable academy * European Journal of Women’s Studies *

Michelle Ronksley-Pavia is Lecturer in Professional Experience and Special and Inclusive Education in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University, Australia.

Michelle M. Neumann is Associate Professor at Southern Cross University, Australia.

Jane Manakil is Senior Lecturer in the School of Dentistry and Oral Health at Griffith University, Australia.

Kelly Pickard-Smith is Researcher Developer in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester, UK.