Book chapter
Mothering Bodies in Unloving Institutions
(Re)birthing the Feminine in Academe: Creating Spaces of Motherhood in Patriarchal Contexts, pp.49-82
Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education, Springer International Publishing
2020
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Abstract
Four mothers in academia collaboratively story their lived encounters, bringing differing identities, circumstances and experiences of collective exhaustion. They do this by creatively writing lived experiences, sharing these with each other, holding and feeling these lived encounters over time then creatively responding back with gifted crafted words and imagery. Reflection on these gifts and how they bring new insight to lived experiences create collated multi-vocal biographies. Through their collective arts-based poetic and visual inquiry, they see reflections and diffractions in each other’s lived stories that metaphorically provoke understandings of the pain swept into the unforgiving corners of cold, unloving universities. This work is creative resistance: to write from the body gives pearls of pleasure and joy in unloving institutions.
Details
- Title
- Mothering Bodies in Unloving Institutions
- Creators
- Louise Gwenneth Phillips - James Cook UniversityHelen Johnson - University of BrightonSarah Misra - University of StaffordshireAgli Zavros-Orr
- Contributors
- Linda Henderson (Editor) - Monash UniversityAlison L Black (Editor) - University of the Sunshine CoastSusanne Garvis (Editor) - University of Gothenburg
- Publication Details
- (Re)birthing the Feminine in Academe: Creating Spaces of Motherhood in Patriarchal Contexts, pp.49-82
- Series
- Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing; Cham
- Identifiers
- 991012931499402368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter