(In)visible Working Mama Drama: From Excellent to ‘Good Enough’ Academia and (M)Others
Michaela Edwards,
Maranda Ridgway,
Gwen Chen
et al.
Abstract:The neoliberal, precarious, anatomized and audit‐centric academy produces an unfair burden on women academics. Academia, like many other organizational forms, demands unwellness. This paper argues that as well as intensifying the struggles of mothering academics like us, the pandemic also rendered us visible, forcing the body subject into view and, in doing so, offering some (albeit small) resistance to the ‘anatomizing urge’ in academia. Following discussions on agentic visibility, we propose the idea of agen… Show more
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