Rev. of Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood: In the Spaces Provided

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Abstract

When my first child was born eighteen years ago, I was a doctoral candidate who aspired to an academic career. Birth certificates in Australia require parents to include their profession (although my own from thirty years earlier listed my father as a librarian and left my mother, a nurse, without an occupation). With uneasy hubris, I wrote academic. I was claiming the space for an imaginary future, with only a dim idea of what it meant to be an academic or a mother. I have subsequently made a career of thinking about the stories we tell as academics in institutional contexts. I have collaborated on narrative research into structural inequities in universities, and crafted autoethnographies of my interrupted career. 1 Writing about promotion in Life Writing, I thought critically about the I who writes selectively to meet academic standards, the conditions of the university under which that I emerges...
Original languageEnglish
Journala/b: Auto/Biography Studies
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Publication statusPublished - 2024

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