Feminist Mentoring in Academia

Feminist Mentoring in Academia offers a collection of auto-ethnographic and research-based accounts of support, struggle, and resilience from the ivory tower. Scholars of communication, feminist studies, and sociology will find this book of particular interest.

Feminist Mentoring in Academia offers a varied collection of autoethnographic and research-based accounts of support, struggle, and resilience from the ivory tower. Contributors write about the moments in-between, where feminist mentoring initiates, renews, thrives, and sometimes struggles. The work presented in this book highlights how feminist mentoring happens between professor and student; junior faculty and tenured; and occurs repeatedly. Featuring contributions from scholars at varying points in their academic careers, the chapters of this book propose best feminist mentorship practices, disclose personal narratives, and critique traditional forms of mentoring with visions for feminist mentorship futures. Scholars of communication, feminist studies, higher education, and sociology will find this book of particular interest.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Stevie M. Munz, Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, and Jessica A. Pauly

Chapter 1: Feminist Co-Mentoring For Resilience: Institutionalizing Micro-Macro Strategies for Adaptation and Transformation

Patrice M. Buzzanell

Chapter 2: Feminist Pedagogy Collective: Reflections on Feminist Co-Mentoring in U.S. Academia

Danielle J. Corple, Sean M. Eddington, Elizabeth Wilhoit Larson, Jasmine R. Linabary, Ziyu Long, & Jessica A. Pauly

Chapter 3: “Fairness, not Equity”: Using Horizontal Feminist Mentoring to Cope with Sexism

Jordan Allen

Chapter 4: Mentor, Sponsor, or Advocate?: Institutionalized Mentoring Versus Feminist Mentoring

Ashton Mouton

Chapter 5: Sisters Be Doing it for Themselves: Organic Interstage Feminist Mentoring

Cecilia Cerja, Jennifer Bender, Brooke Hildebrand Clubbs, Gabriela I. Morales

Chapter 6: Beyond Burnout: Gaming, Glowing, and Building Feminist Mentor Community

Scarlett L. Hester and Katherine J. Denker

Chapter 7: Women of Color in Communication Studies: Informal Feminist Mentoring, Building Peer Support Networks and Identity Navigation through Creative Collaboration

Tui Matelau and Helen Yeung

Chapter 8: Sister circles as Black feminist mentorship for Black doctoral women in PWIs

Sherella Cupid

Chapter 9: Behind Every Woman: Feminist Mentoring in a Closed Social Media Group

Sheri Rysdam; Katharine O’Connor; Alicia Nijdam-Jones; Katherine Fama; Heidi Smith Parker; Brandi Felderhoff

Chapter 10: The Struggle is Real

Jennifer Hall

Chapter 11: Feminist Co-Mentoring Across Three Academic Generations

Sharmila Pixy Ferris, Diana Peck and Kelli Jean Smith

About the Contributors