Blurred boundaries : feminist essays on twenty-first-century academic labor / edited by Jessica Edens McCrary and Lynée Lewis Gaillet.
| Other author | McCrary, Jessica Edens, editor. |
| Other author | Gaillet, Lynée Lewis, editor. |
| Other author | University of South Carolina. Press, publisher. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2026] |
| Copyright Date | ©2026 |
| Description | xxv, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | monochrome |
| Physical medium | illustration |
| Physical medium | graph |
| Contents | Introduction : The personal is professional / Jessica Edens McCrary -- The impact of slow change : feminist perspectives on women's advancement in higher education post-COVID-19 / Keri Carter -- Written in sand : on becoming a mother during a global pandemic / Laura Sceniak Matravers -- Vibrations : mothering, carework, and the value of shared story / Sara Cooper, Rebecca Hallman Martini, and Michelle Miley -- Writing and therapy : writing as an academic caregiver during the COVID-19 pandemic / Jessica Jorgenson Borchert -- Schooling the public : empathy in K-12 teachers' social media posts during the COVID-19 pandemic / Danielle De Arment-Donohue -- Virtual kindergarten on my couch : a reflection on the reconstruction of domestic space / Ashley J. Holmes -- "It's not like I have anything better to do!" : rhetorics of abundant time during the COVID-19 pandemic / Meaghan Brewer -- The labor of inquiry : women's writing and research during COVID-19 / Elizabeth Ellis Miller -- Reimagined productivity : narratives of academic mothers who choose to homeschool / Heidi M. Williams, Laura Seroka, Abby Arnold-Patti, Nandini Deo, and Ceceilia Parnther -- t Bringing into focus what's been blurred : rewarding relation-based work / Lee Nickoson and Mary P. Sheridan -- "But he isn't your kid" : stepparenting and work-life balance, COVID-19 edition / Molly E. MacLachlan -- Pandemic writing in crip time : tense dispatches from mid-rank / Shannon Walters -- Challenging ageism through intergenerational initiatives / Michael Harker -- Are we done yet? : disruption, inevitable fatigue, and reimagining our PhD exam timetables / Kelli R. Gill and Angela D. Mack -- Burnt out before I began : finding, and failing to find, a work-life balance amid the pandemic / My shame story : gendered ethnic inequities of student evaluation of teaching / Mary Lourdes Silva -- Pursuing 20/20 vision : learning the labor of activist editors / Nancy Myers and Heather Brook Adams -- Empowering rhetorics : writing and reading stories as a feminist, spiritual tool / Taylor Paige Winfield -- Afterward : Archive, heuristic, argument / Jessica Enoch. |
| Abstract | "How the COVID-19 pandemic revealed gendered inequities in academic labor-and how to overcome them. Although the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020 proved universally challenging, women, especially, found themselves caught between professional and familial responsibilities as work and homelife boundaries converged and collapsed. These gendered workplace struggles were not unique to the pandemic, but rather were exacerbated and exposed by the public health response. In Blurred Boundaries: Feminist Essays on Twenty-First-Century Academic Labor, scholars, teachers, and administrators pair eyewitness narratives with sustained interrogation of interminable labor inequities to demonstrate the ongoing dilemmas posed by gendered social and professional expectations. Grounded in rhetoric and composition scholarship and feminist methodologies, contributors highlight systemic labor issues and suggest solutions to these embedded, ongoing problems. They pose critical questions regarding institutions' responsibilities for engaging intentional decision-making practices both to disrupt recurrent work imbalances and to support sustainable, ethically managed academic labor practices"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Blurred boundaries Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2026] 9781643366739 |
| LCCN | 2025047319 |
| ISBN | 9781643365855 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1643365851 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781643366494 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1643366491 (paperback) |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | New Books | LC212.86 .B58 2026 | ✔ Available | Want This? |