Until Every Woman Is Free

Equity and Belonging in the Academy Through Duoethnography

Christina L. Dobbs, Christine Montecillo Leider

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2025
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216265894
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

In this volume, women in academia use autoethnographic methods to document and unpack their experiences as women of color in the academy.

Many higher education institutions have made public-facing, explicit commitments to diversifying and retaining faculty of color, yet research continues to document how, even under these changes, the experiences of faculty-especially women-of color have changed minimally, if at all. Through the use of duoethnography and other autoethnographic methods, this edited collection highlights the voices of women of color in academia from a range of university settings, developmental career stages, and professional trajectories, providing a space for women of color to process their own experiences navigating, surviving, and thriving in white male-dominated academia. The contributors featured in this volume offer important insights into how institutions of higher education could better support women of color professors.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Creating Space to Be: Identity-Affirming Femtoring to Transform Academia
• Response to “Creating Space to Be: Identity-Affirming Femtoring to Transform Academia” by Betina Hsieh and Alejandra Priede
• Chapter 2: Internalized Racism: Symptoms and Survival
• Response to “Internalized Racism: Symptoms and Survival” by LaShawnda N. Fields and Dominique Horton
• Chapter 3: Navigating US Academia as Transnational Women from the Global South: A Duoethnographic Inquiry
• Response to “Navigating US Academia as Transnational Women from the Global South: A Duoethnographic Inquiry” by Ying Xiong and Suneeta Thomas
• Chapter 4: Weaving Collective Past, Present, and Future as SEAA Women in the Academy
• Response to “Weaving Collective Past, Present, and Future as SEAA Women in the Academy” by Jacqueline Mac, Malisa Lee, Phitsamay Uy, and Varaxy Yi
• Chapter 5: My Journey as a Black Woman Academic: Navigating and Thriving in Diverse Settings
• Response to “My Journey as a Black Woman Academic: Navigating and Thriving in Diverse Settings” by Patricia A. Edwards
• Chapter 6: Not Your Accessory: Exploring Asian American Women Faculty’s Invisibility in Academia
• Response to “Not your Accessory: Exploring Asian American Women Faculty’s Invisibility in Academia” by Grace S. Kim and Yuki Okubo
• Chapter 7: Making a Home in Higher Education: Don’t Forget Your Family
• Response to “Making a Home in Higher Education: Don’t Forget Your Family” by Eleonora Villegas-Reimers and Stephanie Cox Suárez
• Chapter 8: The Hills We Climb and Getting There Whole: Recognizing Multiple Pathways to the Mountain Top and the Strategies to Call In or Call Out the WSC
• Response to “The Hills We Climb and Getting There Whole: Recognizing Multiple Pathways to the Mountain Top and the Strategies to Call In or Call Out the WSC” by Pipier Smith-Mumford and Harriette Scott
• Chapter 9: The Lapdog Syndrome 2.0: Asian Women in Academic Servitude
• Response to “The Lapdog Syndrome 2.0: Asian Women in Academic Servitude” by Trish Morita-Mullaney and Diep Nguyen
• Chapter 10: “They Did Not Imagine Us Here, but We’re Thriving”: A Duoethnography of Black Women Centering Joy, Hope, and Optimism as Early Career Faculty
• Response to: “‘They Did Not Imagine Us Here, but We’re Thriving’: A Duoethnography of Black Women Centering Joy, Hope, and Optimism as Early Career Faculty” by Roshaunda L. Breeden and Jemilia S. Davis
• Chapter 11: Even If It’s Only for Us: Duoethnography as Iteration, Persistence, and Existence
• Index
• About the Contributors