Being and Becoming Professionally Other
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Being and Becoming Professionally Other

Identities, Voices, and Experiences of U.S. Trans* Academics

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Being and Becoming Professionally Other

Identities, Voices, and Experiences of U.S. Trans* Academics

About this book

Being and Becoming Professionally Other: Identities, Voices, and Experiences of U.S. Trans* Academics is a path-clearing book that provides a rich, in-depth account of the lived experiences of 39 transgender or trans* academics.

Despite increased visibility of trans* issues within higher education, college environments remain unfriendly, and in some cases, overtly hostile to trans* people. While there is much discussion of gender equity and faculty diversity, these conversations rarely include trans* academics' voices. As a study participant described, trans* voices are often out of place at best—or worse, completely discounted in academe, a betwixt place.

By not fitting into a particular mold, trans* academics experience a variety of adverse events including microaggressions, outright hostility, and exclusion. These adverse experiences create a context wherein trans* academics engage in various forms of additional labor. While not necessarily unique to trans* academics, these various forms of labor provided evidence to support my assertion that trans* academics are or become professionally Other. Given this Other status, trans* academics must form broad coalitions to bring about change within higher education organizations. Additionally, higher education leaders have an opportunity to change organizational contexts to better support trans* academics by radically re-imagining colleges and universities.

This text would be an excellent choice for graduate and undergraduate courses about gender, qualitative research methods courses, and courses about academic careers, and organizational theories.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Chapter 1: Introduction: The Transgender Tipping Point
  5. Chapter 2: Theoretical Interlude: Embodied Sedimentation
  6. Chapter 3: Embodied Sedimentation: Trans* Academics’ Gender Identities
  7. Chapter 4: Theoretical Interlude: Microfoundations and Inequality Regimes
  8. Chapter 5: "A Sense of Paranoia and Hypersensitivity”: Articulations of the Microfoundations of Trans* Academics’ Experiences
  9. Chapter 6: Theoretical Interlude: Institutional Logics Perspectives and Neoliberal Governmentality
  10. Chapter 7: Within the Academic Market/Workplace
  11. Chapter 8: Theoretical Interlude: Thinking Through Thresholds
  12. Chapter 9: "A Threshold Across”: How Organizational Contexts Shape Trans* Academics’ Experiences
  13. Chapter 10: Theoretical Interlude: Articulating Resistance
  14. Chapter 11: Uncovering Trans* Academics’ Resistance and Disruption
  15. Chapter 12: Theoretical Interlude: Critical Scholar/Activist Stance
  16. Chapter 13: Pulling Across Thresholds: Towards a Coalitional Politics of Liberation and New Vision of Gender in Academic Organizations
  17. Methodological Appendix
  18. Index