Miller / Oksman Feminists Reclaim Mentorship

An Anthology
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9186-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory

Feminists revisit their mixed experiences of mentoring and being mentored to reclaim mentorship as a project for new generations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Nancy K.

Oksman, Tahneer

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Mutual Engagements
Nancy K. Miller and Tahneer Oksman

Part I. Two-Way Streets: Finding Mentors / Becoming Mentors

Rosemarie’s Hands
Rachel Adams

Tears, Idle Tears: Mentoring English Graduate Students from 1973 to 2010
Susan Gubar

The Making of an Intellectual: Mentoring, Mothering, and a Black Feminist Journey
Michele Faith Wallace

When Am I Supposed to Stop Asking You for Advice?
Hillary Chute

Mentorship: By Any Means Necessary
Sharifa Hampton

The Accidental Mentor
Jennifer Crewe

Can a Therapist Be a Mentor?
Kamy Wicoff

The Reluctant Writer: Looking Back on My Mentors
Sarah Glazer

“That was where I felt most myself “: A Conversation with Sarah Burnes about Books, Mentors, Feminism, and Mothers
Tahneer Oksman

How I Came to America and Discovered Female Mentors
Mikhal Dekel

Rainmaker: How a Mentor Transformed My Destiny
Michelle Yasmine Valladares

Transformative Adaptations: Tracking Fay Gale as a Teacher
Elizabeth Wood

Dear Ant
Aoibheann Sweeney

Part II. Rearview Mirror: Mentoring at a Distance

Ready
Joy Ladin

Mentor Ghosts
Siri Hustvedt

Writing Letters to Ghosts: On Meena Alexander’s Posthumous Mentorship
Ashna Ali

Part III. The Traffic in Mentors: Horizontal Scripts

Widening the Way: An Interview with Dána-Ain Davis
Nancy K. Miller

Navigating Distance and Self-Doubt through Multiple Mentors
Angela Francis

All the Angry Young Women
Elizabeth Alsop

Mentoring and #MeToo
Leigh Gilmore

The Mentor as Mirror
Melissa Coss Aquino

Among Friends
Sarah Chihaya

A Chorus, Not a Monologue
Melissa Duclos

The Group (Text), or the Small Stuff
Sarah Blackwood

On Leaning Out
Laura Limonic

A Special Place in Hell: Women Helping Women and the Professionalization of Female Mentorship
Angela Veronica Wong

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her many books include My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism; Breathless: An American Girl in Paris; What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past; and But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives. Tahneer Oksman is Associate Professor of Academic Writing at Marymount Manhattan College. She is the author of "How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?": Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs and coeditor (with Seamus O'Malley) of The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell: A Place Inside Yourself.