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Reynolds, P. J. and Henderson, Emily F. (2023) Gender and the symbolic power of academic conferences in fictional texts. Higher Education Research and Development, 42 (3). pp. 728-741. doi:10.1080/07294360.2022.2089097 ISSN 0729-4360.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2022.2089097
Abstract
Across the contemporary global higher education sector, there is an increased focus on gender and the academic profession, particularly inequalities. Previous studies construct a clear picture of the academy as an unfriendly profession for women, particularly highlighting the challenge to ‘belong’. A growing body of literature demonstrates how conferences contribute to the development of academic careers but are also shown to be exclusionary spaces for many different groups, including women academics. This study focuses on how gender manifests in cultural representations of conferences – and the academics involved. Based on a qualitative gender analysis of symbolic references to academic conferences from a sample of written fictional texts, the article reveals how fictional representations of conferences portray gender and especially how they contribute to depictions that reproduce gender inequalities. Focusing on who is attending fictional conferences and what these characters are doing at or in relation to conferences, our analysis highlights how women’s viability as academics is challenged across a range of texts. We argue that cultural representations of academics cannot be ignored in gender analyses of academia, due to the role they play in constructing a dominant imaginary of academics.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | A General Works > AS Academies and learned societies (General) H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education L Education > LC Special aspects of education |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Education, Higher , Women in higher education , Gender mainstreaming , Sex discrimination against women, Gender identity, Congresses and conventions -- Attendance -- Sex differences | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Higher Education Research and Development | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0729-4360 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2023 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 42 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 14 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 728-741 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/07294360.2022.2089097 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Higher Education Research and Development on 04/07/2022, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/07294360.2022.2089097 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | HERDSA | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 May 2022 | ||||||||
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