
Blurred Boundaries
Feminist Essays on Twenty-First-Century Academic Labor
University of South Carolina Press
Will be published approx. on 30. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
318 pages
978-1-64336-649-4 (ISBN)
Description
How the COVID-19 pandemic revealed gendered inequities in academic labor-and how to overcome them
Although the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020 proved universally challenging, women, especially, found themselves caught between professional and familial responsibilities as work and homelife boundaries converged and collapsed. These gendered workplace struggles were not unique to the pandemic, but, rather, were exacerbated and exposed by the public health response. In Blurred Boundaries: Feminist Essays on Twenty-First-Century Academic Labor, scholars, teachers, and administrators pair eyewitness narratives with sustained interrogation of interminable labor inequities to demonstrate the ongoing dilemmas posed by gendered social and professional expectations.
Grounded in rhetoric and composition scholarship and feminist methodologies, contributors highlight systemic labor issues and suggest solutions to these embedded, ongoing problems. They pose critical questions regarding institutions' responsibilities for engaging intentional decision-making practices both to disrupt recurrent work imbalances and to support sustainable, ethically managed academic labor practices.
Although the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020 proved universally challenging, women, especially, found themselves caught between professional and familial responsibilities as work and homelife boundaries converged and collapsed. These gendered workplace struggles were not unique to the pandemic, but, rather, were exacerbated and exposed by the public health response. In Blurred Boundaries: Feminist Essays on Twenty-First-Century Academic Labor, scholars, teachers, and administrators pair eyewitness narratives with sustained interrogation of interminable labor inequities to demonstrate the ongoing dilemmas posed by gendered social and professional expectations.
Grounded in rhetoric and composition scholarship and feminist methodologies, contributors highlight systemic labor issues and suggest solutions to these embedded, ongoing problems. They pose critical questions regarding institutions' responsibilities for engaging intentional decision-making practices both to disrupt recurrent work imbalances and to support sustainable, ethically managed academic labor practices.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
South Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
7 illustrations - 6 b&w halftones, 1 table - 6 Halftones, black and white - 1 Tables, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64336-649-4 (9781643366494)
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Jessica Edens McCrary is associate director of the National Scholarships & Fellowships Program at Emory University.
Lynee Lewis Gaillet is Distinguished University Professor of English at Georgia State University.
Lynee Lewis Gaillet is Distinguished University Professor of English at Georgia State University.