Invisible Woman
Growing Up Black in Germany
Ika Hügel-Marshall
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5. Invisible Woman: A DIVA Seizing Visibility 5. Invisible Woman: A DIVA Seizing Visibility T ONI M ILTON W ILLIAMS Without light I am not only invisible, but formless as well; and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death. I myself, after existing some twenty years, did not become alive until I discovered my invisibility . — Ralph Ellison I was sitting on my front porch enjoying the warmth of the mid-morning sun massaging my arms and legs while I was on the phone with Cherrel, a fellow doctoral student who had recently completed her PhD. While we spoke I
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5. Invisible Woman: A DIVA Seizing Visibility Toni MilTon WilliaMs Without light I am not only invisible, but formless as well; and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death. I myself, after existing some twenty years, did not become alive until I discovered my invisibility. — Ralph Ellison I was sitting on my front porch enjoying the warmth of the mid-morning sun massaging my arms and legs while I was on the phone with Cherrel, a fellow doctoral student who had recently completed her PhD. While we spoke I was reminded of the nightmare and
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Chapter 04 ← 48 | 49 → Chapter 4: The Invisible Woman: How Institutional Cultures Perpetuate the Marginalization of Black Women B Y K ELLY K. H OPE 1 Invisibility is “the state of being ignored, or not taken into consideration” (The English Oxford Dictionary, Online). Since our tumultuous arrival into the United States, black women have experienced, lived, and understood oppression, degradation, and disregard (Dillard, 2016). In fact, embedded in the history of the United States and the fabric of its educational system, in particular, is the idea that the
Outsiders or Equals?
Women Professors at the University of New Zealand, 1911-1961
Tanya Fitzgerald
Across the ninety years of its history, the University of New Zealand (1871-1961) appointed four women professors to the academic staff. From the outset, while the ‘woman professor’ was an insider to the Academy based on her qualifications and professional credentials, on the basis of her gender she was a relative outsider to this deeply patriarchal institution. Accordingly, academic women, and in particular this first generation of women professors, were officially invisible both to their (male) colleagues and to the institution. This is not to suggest that the presence of a ‘woman professor’ was unproblematic or that she sat easily on the margins of men’s scholarly worlds. This book traces the personal and professional histories of each woman professor and examines their contribution to the expansion of higher education for women. On the basis of extensive archival research in New Zealand, England and the United States, the author uses Bourdieu’s notions of ‘habitus’, ‘field’ and ‘capital’ to analyse this intellectual community of women and the professionalisation of academic work. The book rehabilitates the ‘woman professor’ from the margins of historical scholarship and offers an insight into a forgotten aspect of the history of women’s higher education: the history of women and the professoriate.
Making Relationships
Gender in the Forming of Academic Community
Kathleen Dixon
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Lauren Selfe
The figure of the «Muslim» woman or girl performs a crucial role in far-reaching socio-political debates in Germany. Indeed, such figures challenge the boundaries of gender equality and secularism and contest notions of tolerance and integration. The (in)visibility of Muslim women’s bodies and their apparent position in Islam function as ostensible indicators of their oppression and of Islam’s supposed incompatibility with western values.
This book investigates representations of «Muslim» women and girls in German popular culture from 1990 to 2015. The study analyses the discursive function of such figures in German popular culture via three key research questions: what representational practices surround the figure of the Muslim woman or girl in German life writing, young adult literature and film? How do such representations function to produce «non-Muslim» subject positions? What is the function of this figure within narratives of feminism and assertions of gender equality? This study understands itself as an intervention into contemporary racist discourses in Germany and operates within a transdisciplinary framework of intersectional feminism and cultural and German studies. Ultimately, the book aims to make visible and interrogate
the underlying hierarchies and agendas that drive representations of Muslim women and girls.
This book was the winner of the of the 2017 Early Career Researcher Prize in German Studies, a collaboration between the Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham and Peter Lang.
A Hermeneutic on Dislocation as Experience
Creating a Borderland, Constructing a Hybrid Identity
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Hemchand Gossai and Jung Eun Sophia Park
This book suggests that people who experience dislocation can create a borderland where their own marginality gains power and voice. In that borderland, they are able to construct a hybrid identity as a result of deep engagement with one another. In particular, the author’s fieldwork on Korean shamans reveals how the shamanic ritual itself functions as a borderland, wherein the marginalized Korean shamans gain hybrid identity. A Hermeneutic on Dislocation as Experience is a valuable resource for classes in Asian studies, ethnography, cultural anthropology, biblical spirituality, women’s spirituality, and interdisciplinary courses.
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Edited by Marta L. Wilkinson
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4. Black Wonder Woman: Demystifying the “Supernatural” Powers of the Black Female Doctoral Student 55 Cheryll siBley-alBolD 5. Invisible Woman: A DIVA Seizing Visibility 67 Toni MilTon WilliaMs viii ConTenTs 6. Tales from a Hip-Hop DIVA: One Girl’s Journey from the Bronx to the PhD 77 DaWn niCole hiCks Tafari 7. Transition—“Changing the Game”: The Role of Qualitative Narratives in Research and Knowledge Construction 89 Cherrel Miller DyCe anD Toni MilTon WilliaMs 8. The Liberatory Educator: Transforming Lives, One Student at a Time 91 TeMeka l. CarTer 9