It's time to recognize how men's careers benefit from sexually harassing women in academia

Mansfield, Becky; Lave, Rebecca; McSweeney, Kendra; Bonds, Anne; Cockburn, Jaclyn M. H.; Domosh, Mona; Hamilton, Trina; Hawkins, Roberta; Hessl, Amy; Munroe, Darla K.; Ojeda, Diana; Radel, Claudia

doi:10.1177/194277861901200110

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“…Sexual harassment also occurs when male (and sometime female) colleagues dismiss your ideas publically only to use them later in their publications and talks; when women are consistently silenced and forced to be mansplained at mandatory faculty meetings; and when they are systemically denied tenure, justified by a committee who claims ‘a lack of confidence’ in a candidate’s research and teaching (Domosh, 2015; Mansfield et al, 2019). While some exclusionary practices within geographical knowledge production are quite egregious and frankly illegal (see Mansfield et al, 2019), others are ‘wrapped up in meritocratic veneer’ (from Domosh, 2015). As a result, female (and some minority male) geographers are compelled to do ‘defensive work’ (Mansfield et al, 2019).…”

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“…While some exclusionary practices within geographical knowledge production are quite egregious and frankly illegal (see Mansfield et al, 2019), others are ‘wrapped up in meritocratic veneer’ (from Domosh, 2015). As a result, female (and some minority male) geographers are compelled to do ‘defensive work’ (Mansfield et al, 2019). As Mansfield et al make clear, defensive work is a direct result of the way,[s]exual harassment benefits men by systematically undermining women, even those not directly targeted…Lecherous professors harass bright female graduate students right out of academia, derailing their lives and impoverishing our field.…”

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‘We didn’t have time to sit still and be scared’: A postcolonial feminist geographic reading of ‘An other geography’

Faria

Mollett

2020

Dialogues in Human Geography

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In this article, we respond to Oswin’s ‘An other geography’ from a feminist postcolonial geographic perspective. We make three interventions. First, we decenter Euro-American Anglo geography spatially, insisting that we situate it in place, and are attentive to spatial, temporal, relational, and overlapping margins and centers. Second, we call for a more embodied account, recognizing the intimate is a lens onto and a site for the reproduction of spatial oppression and resistance. Last, we call for a reckoning with whiteness, a more sustained interrogation of its work both in spaces of domination and at the margins. A feminist postcolonial geographic assertion gives us perspective. It makes visible the situated and varied experiences of elided scholar-subjects in the Global South, and those otherwise marginal to the hegemonies of both Euro-American Anglo geography and its critics. And, in doing so, it forges new contours of connection, offering us more inclusive, complex, and disruptive opportunities for solidarity.

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‘We didn’t have time to sit still and be scared’: A postcolonial feminist geographic reading of ‘An other geography’

Faria

Mollett

2020

Dialogues in Human Geography

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“…We take seriously the feminist contention that “academic brilliance and achievement is always already a collective endeavor,” and our experience suggests that transformative mentoring can produce unexpected benefits for both the mentor and the mentee (Mansfield et al. 2019). We draw inspiration from feminist anthropologists who are resisting and moving away from the colonial history of anthropology into critical engagement with social justice inside and outside academia.…”

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Advisor–advisee feminist relational mentoring: A heartfelt autoethnographic conversation

Mokhtar¹,

Foley²

2020

Feminist Anthropology

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Academia is frequently a hostile place where students, pre‐tenure scholars, women, people of color, disabled, queer, transgender, and nonbinary people face perpetual challenges. “You do not belong here” or “you are not good enough” can feel like a constant refrain. Yet some students find their path and pursue their graduate studies with determination, or even passion, joy, and a sense of satisfaction. A successful mentoring relationship with a faculty member can contribute to that success. This article tells the story of how two very differently positioned women in academia forged a unique mentoring relationship that produced unexpected and positive outcomes. One measure of this relationship's success is the student's transformation from hesitant master's student to confident doctoral student pursuing a self‐designed multidisciplinary doctoral degree. Less tangibly but no less important, the increasingly reciprocal and horizontal nature of this mentoring relationship allowed both parties to take risks in their academic lives and to step into more liberatory modes of knowing and being in the academy. In this article we, a white American tenured faculty advisor and a Saudi‐American Muslim woman PhD advisee, trace some of the key turning points in this advising story through a duo‐autoethnographic (duoethnography: a collaborative research methodology in which two or more researchers juxtapose their life histories in order to provide multiple understandings of a social phenomenon) dialogue. We relay how our mentoring relationship allowed each of us to transcend our scripted academic roles and fostered an enabling environment for doctoral study and risky scholarship. We acknowledge that mentoring is not a one‐size‐fits‐all approach, yet we hope that by highlighting some dimensions of our relationship we might inform others seeking a feminist, relational, horizontal, supportive model for academic mentoring.

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“…Extending the argument made by Mansfield et al (2019), it seems a component of abolishing ‘White men’ starts with naming the harm done by individuals who give foundation to the collective harm; raising voice from the shadows of the whisper network to center stage. Once corrupt individual behavior is more legible, putting the work of individuals in conversation with their actions facilitates broader forms of accountability.…”

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“…Another step that Mansfield et al (2019) suggest that seems necessary in moving toward ‘an other geography’, and working toward the abolition of ‘White men’, is refusing to honor them with awards and recognitions from which to extend heteropatriarchy. In particular, they recommend that ‘we can institute new review requirements for disciplinary honors and other forms of institutional recognition’ (Mansfield et al, 2019: 85). The ‘we’ here is important, as many awards that prop up the institution of ‘White men’ are professional societies and universities.…”

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What Harriet Tubman and John Brown can teach us about abolishing ‘White men’

Heynen

2020

Dialogues in Human Geography

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This commentary argues that one path toward Natalie Oswin’s ‘An Other Geography’ is through abolishing the institution of ‘White men’. Like other oppressive institutions, ‘White men’ have produced epistemic violence that has shaped and structured the discipline of geography in uneven and unjust ways. This essay is an effort to show appreciation and gratitude, and to stand in solidarity, with Oswin’s prophetic vision of ‘an other geography’. I mobilize the linked biographies of Harriet Tubman and John Brown as an entry point given how little we have yet worked to understand abolitionist history for thinking through the many ways we can work to transform geography.

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It's time to recognize how men's careers benefit from sexually harassing women in academia

Cited by 41 publications

References 14 publications

‘We didn’t have time to sit still and be scared’: A postcolonial feminist geographic reading of ‘An other geography’

‘We didn’t have time to sit still and be scared’: A postcolonial feminist geographic reading of ‘An other geography’

Advisor–advisee feminist relational mentoring: A heartfelt autoethnographic conversation

What Harriet Tubman and John Brown can teach us about abolishing ‘White men’

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