Writing for survival (… and to breathe)

Silva, Caroline Rodrigues

doi:10.1111/gwao.12578

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“…A log-linear analysis of the HESA data identified a three-way significant (p = 0.015) association between gender, race, and pay. Future research needs to examine how intersectionality shapes experiences of work, differential treatment, and inequalities in business schools (Bourabain, 2021;Silva, 2021).…”

Section: F I G U R Ementioning

confidence: 99%

Business schools and faculty experiences of sexism: Gender structure tensions within and outside these schools

Hughes

Donnelly

2023

Gender Work & Organization

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In this paper, we advance knowledge and theorization on the sexism experienced by faculty not only inside but also outside the physical boundaries of business schools. We enrich existing knowledge of gender and sexism by applying Gender Structure Theory (GST) to provide a more multi-dimensional analysis of the role of individuals, interactions, and institutions in shaping gender structures. Engaging with this theoretical framework, we use mixed-methods and data, integrating statistical data on gender in UK business schools with qualitative data from interviews with 52 academics from 15 schools to provide a nuanced insight into sexism at business schools. The framework developed from the findings extends GST by adding a specific "organizational" dimension, which is needed to examine interorganizational differences and how cultural and material organizational processes are influenced by wider national/ international processes. We also identify three key interactional tensions cutting across the dimensions examined: organizational versus interorganizational relations, agency versus dependency, and employment relationships versus stakeholder relationships. The findings generate pressing implications for policy and practice in business schools and academia more broadly.

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Section: F I G U R Ementioning

confidence: 99%

Business schools and faculty experiences of sexism: Gender structure tensions within and outside these schools

Hughes

Donnelly

2023

Gender Work & Organization

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“…However, finding ways to mourn our losses in our writing creates embodied writing spaces where we can learn to live with our grief and recognize another’s pain as grievable (Butler, 2009; Kivinen, 2021). These are spaces of/for survival and resistance (Silva, 2021), where expressions of mourning often considered socially unacceptable or unprofessional are brought to light (Boncori and Smith, 2019): where “people with scars recognize each other (. .…”

Section: Academic Writing As Mourningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Affective diaries of quarantine: Writing as mourning

Mandalaki

2022

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Challenging the bodily-detached logos qualifying as perfect knowledge in academia, I write here to mourn, driven by a visceral need to speak of vulnerabilities and affects, which continuously become overexposed under the COVID-19 pandemic and the corresponding lockdown periods. My diary notes reflect my affective ambivalences, ambiguities, and contradictions during this time, which I interweave with critical feminist theories on affect and mourning as an emancipating process. In so doing, I propose academic writing as a mourning process with heightened relational, ethical, and esthetic possibilities. Mourning the collateral losses and multi-dimensional vulnerabilities experienced during this pandemic provides, I suggest, a relational language to speak of embodied affects to challenge and resist normative structures oppressing difference and otherness, including the affectively disengaged academic logos. I propose that experiencing academic writing as a mourning process enables us to develop the embodied subjectivities necessary to survive the crises surrounding our lives, which the pandemic has left bare. Doing so motivates a kind optimism necessary for driving desired change, collectively, in academia and in broader society.

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“…As women academics working in the same masculinity‐privileging spaces, we recognize writing as a form of activism (Mandalaki, 2020; Pullen, 2018) that begins by speaking, listening, and sharing (Phillips et al., 2014) to develop a political voice; it is a micro‐revolution (Pullen et al., 2020). Writing as a feminist strategy represents an act of survival in academia's masculinist, male‐centric culture that bounds our voices and binds our bodies (Özkazanç‐Pan, 2020), to subvert, confuse, resist, and challenge academia's masculine discourse (Boncori & Smith, 2019; Jones et al., 2019; Kiriakos & Tienari, 2018) and disrupt, dismantle and destabilize its imperialist and patriarchal patterns (Silva, 2020). In so doing, our polyphonic text sits on the intersection of change and academic writing that deviates from individualization towards collective solidarity (Vachhani & Pullen, 2019).…”

Section: Why Women Write Together?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Breaking the mold: Working through our differences to vocalize the sound of change

Abdellatif

Aldossari

Boncori

et al. 2021

Gender Work & Organization

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This paper orchestrates alterethnographical reflections in which we, women, polyphonically document, celebrate and vocalize the sound of change. This change is represented in Kamala Harris's appointment as the first woman, woman of color, and South Asian American as the US Vice President, breaking new boundaries of political leadership, and harvesting new gains for women in leadership and power more broadly. With feminist awareness and curiosity, we organize and mobilize individual texts into a multivocal paper as a way to write solidarity between women. Recognizing our intersectional differences, and power differentials inherent in our different positions in academic hierarchies, we unite to write about our collective concerns regarding gendered, racialised, classed social relations. Coming together across intersectional differences in a writing community has been a vehicle to speak, relate, share, and voice our feelings and thoughts to document this historic moment and build a momentum to fulfill our hopes for social change. As feminists, we accept our responsibility to make this history written, rather than manipulated or erased, by breaking the mold in the form of multi‐layered embodied texts to expand writing and doing research differently through re/writing otherness.

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Writing for survival (… and to breathe)

Cited by 12 publications

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Business schools and faculty experiences of sexism: Gender structure tensions within and outside these schools

Business schools and faculty experiences of sexism: Gender structure tensions within and outside these schools

Affective diaries of quarantine: Writing as mourning

Breaking the mold: Working through our differences to vocalize the sound of change

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