Women Supervising and Writing Doctoral Theses: Walking on the Grass
Walking on the Grass brings to life women’s experiences during their doctoral study and the experiences of women who supervise doctoral students. Sensations, reflections, and imaginations emerge through memories, histories, and different ways of narrating academic journeys. This book examines in depth, the emotional and embodied nature of writing, supervising, and inter-subjective learning. It makes visible ethics of care required in that liminal space in which supervisors and doctoral scholars work to shape and give confidence to the becoming academic. The book works through the politics of gender, sexuality, age, class, and ethnicity to understand meanings inherent in doctoral and supervisory relationships, reasons for entering academe, and how academic writing obtains form and content.

The significance of the book is its contribution to understanding academic thesis writing as complex emotional and embodied gendered labor rather than an instrumental activity in which to earn the title of Doctor of Philosophy.


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Women Supervising and Writing Doctoral Theses: Walking on the Grass
Walking on the Grass brings to life women’s experiences during their doctoral study and the experiences of women who supervise doctoral students. Sensations, reflections, and imaginations emerge through memories, histories, and different ways of narrating academic journeys. This book examines in depth, the emotional and embodied nature of writing, supervising, and inter-subjective learning. It makes visible ethics of care required in that liminal space in which supervisors and doctoral scholars work to shape and give confidence to the becoming academic. The book works through the politics of gender, sexuality, age, class, and ethnicity to understand meanings inherent in doctoral and supervisory relationships, reasons for entering academe, and how academic writing obtains form and content.

The significance of the book is its contribution to understanding academic thesis writing as complex emotional and embodied gendered labor rather than an instrumental activity in which to earn the title of Doctor of Philosophy.


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Walking on the Grass brings to life women’s experiences during their doctoral study and the experiences of women who supervise doctoral students. Sensations, reflections, and imaginations emerge through memories, histories, and different ways of narrating academic journeys. This book examines in depth, the emotional and embodied nature of writing, supervising, and inter-subjective learning. It makes visible ethics of care required in that liminal space in which supervisors and doctoral scholars work to shape and give confidence to the becoming academic. The book works through the politics of gender, sexuality, age, class, and ethnicity to understand meanings inherent in doctoral and supervisory relationships, reasons for entering academe, and how academic writing obtains form and content.

The significance of the book is its contribution to understanding academic thesis writing as complex emotional and embodied gendered labor rather than an instrumental activity in which to earn the title of Doctor of Philosophy.



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780739182161
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 04/09/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 158
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Lia Bryant is associate professor in sociology and social work and director for the Centre for Social Change in the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia.

Katrina Jaworski is lecturer in the School of Communication and International Studies, University of South Australia. She is also a visiting research fellow at the School of History and Politics, University of Adelaide.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Daring to Walk on the Grass
Lia Bryant and Katrina Jaworski

2. Honor Bound
Lia Bryant

3. Passionate Activism as Academic Labour: The Emotional Body of Pedagogical Politics
Christine Beasley and Katrina Jaworski

4. ‘Cutting the Mustard’: Standing your Ground in the Process of Producing Doctoral Dissertations
Judith Gill

5. Stuck Between Two Languages: The Ethics of Writing a Doctoral Dissertation in the English Language
Katrina Jaworski

6. Caring Labor and Caringscapes at the Margins of Academic Work
Valerie Adams

7. Safe to Feel Vulnerable: The Emotional Space of the Doctoral Supervisory Relationship
Marg Rowntree

8. The Liminal Space of PhD Candidature: Becoming Doctor
Mary-Helen Ward

9. Conclusion: Walking on the Grass 84 Years Later
Katrina Jaworski and Lia Bryant

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