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The smiling philosopher: Emotional labor, gender, and harassment in conference spaces

Liz Jackson
- 07 Jun 2019 - 
- Vol. 51, Iss: 7, pp 693-701
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In this paper, the authors argue that conferences enable diverse roles for academics, but they are hardly entered into by participants as equals, and that "academics enter into and experience professional environments dif...
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Conference environments enable diverse roles for academics. However, conferences are hardly entered into by participants as equals. Academics enter into and experience professional environments dif...

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Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern BodiesThinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary WestYearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural PoliticsGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

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Better for Whom? Leveling the Injustices of International Conferences by Moving Online

TL;DR: The 6th International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC6) as mentioned in this paper moved online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to explore participants' perceptions and experiences of an online conference and the potential effects on access and inclusion.
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Zones of alienation in global higher education: Corporate abuse and leadership failures

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explain how these phenomena emerge as a result of leadership failures and corporate abuse in global higher education, and explain how they become particularly corrosive in the "zones of alienation" created through the malignant interaction of two phenomena: "leaderism" and "soldierism".
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Thoughtful gatherings: gendering conferences as spaces of learning, knowledge production and community

TL;DR: Gender and feminist scholars take an active role, in part because of the longstanding tradition of feminist critiques of academic norms, but also because many of the ‘viral’ conference controversies have been gender-related issues.
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Judith Butler
TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as mentioned in this paper are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
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The Promise of Happiness

Sara Ahmed
TL;DR: The Promise of Happiness as mentioned in this paper is a critique of the imperative to be happy, which is defined as the expectation that we will be made happy by taking part in that which is deemed good, and that by being happy ourselves, we will make others happy.
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

TL;DR: A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood as mentioned in this paper, examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black women, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism.

每月一書:Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

朱真一
TL;DR: Sheryl Sandberg examines why women progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers compelling, commonsense solutions that can empower women to achieve their full potential.
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What’s in a Name: Exposing Gender Bias in Student Ratings of Teaching

TL;DR: This article found that students rated the male identity significantly higher than the female identity regardless of the instructor's actual gender, demonstrating gender bias, demonstrating the vital role that student ratings play in academic career trajectories.
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