Positioning and Making of Female Professors

Rowena Murray is Professor and Director of Research in the School of Education at the University of the West of Scotland, UK. Denise Mifsud is an Associate Fellow of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre of Educational Research, Malta and part-time lecturer at the University of Malta.

• Chapter 1. The positioning and making of female academics: A review of the literature; Denise Mifsud.- Chapter 2. Being tough, being humorous and being explicitly feminist: The intrinsically disordered nature of my ways around the academia; Isabel Menezes.- Chapter 3. You must wait to be asked: Career advancement and the maternal body; Caroline Gattrell.- Chapter 4. How babies taught me to 'do' academia: Crafting a career in an institution that was not built for mothers; Catherine Mazak.- Chapter 5. Writing myself into an academic career; Rowena Murray.- Chapter 6. Academic fluidity? An unconventional route to the professoriate; Jackie Potter.- Chapter 7. My personal journey on the pathway of resilience; Sarah Skerratt.- Chapter 8. Actively constructing yourself as a professor: After appointment; Beverley Yamamoto.- Chapter 9. How to fall into a career trap (without even realising); Inger Mewburn.- Chapter 10. Mis-making an academic career: Power, discipline, structures and practices;Devorah Kalekin-Fishman.- Chapter 11. A personal journey of a long and winding road to professorial status: An alternative pathway and the challenges, trials and tribulations; Moira Lafferty.- Chapter 12. The process of becoming a woman professor and 'unbecoming' gender inequality: A female drama of resistance; Denise Mifsud.