Lorri J. Santamaría - Cross-Cultural Women Scholars in Academe

This ground-breaking collection features the diverse voices, experiences, and scholarship of cross-cultural women of American Indian, Asian American, Black/African American and Hispanic descent at various levels of academe, actively engaged in the advancement of marginalized groups in the U.S. and abroad through their scholarly work. Intergenerational cross-cultural scholars manifest a literary community that models ways in which women scholars can move beyond traditional institutional, psychological, and professional barriers to practice activism, break unwritten rules, and shatter status quo business as usual practices in the academy. This distinctive volume exemplifies the phenomenon of cross-cultural women scholars conducting research and writing about ways in which they negotiate their professional realities toward professional goal attainment. Each chapter presents rigorous ethnographic research complemented by critical analyses, reflecting ways in which these self-determined scholars transcend barriers associated with the dynamic intersections of race, gender, ethnicity, class and language in higher education. Scholars share strategies for institutional, psychological, and professional barrier transcendence through various approaches such as educational leadership for equity, the practice of cross-cultural competence, various mentoring interactions, and the creation of and participation in networking groups with other women of color in academe. Students, academics, educational practitioners and individuals seeking exemplars for ethnographic research will find this critical book essential as a means for better informing their scholarship.

Lorri J. Santamara is Associate Dean of Postgraduate Studies and Educational Leadership Faculty at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Gatane Jean-Marie is Professor and Chair of Leadership, Foundations & Human Resource Education at the University of Louisville.

Cosette M. Grant is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Cincinnati and a member of the graduate faculty.

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8 Victorias Daughters
The Schooling of Girls in Britain and Ireland 18501914
Jane McDermid and Paula Coonerty

9 Homosexuality, Law and Resistance
Derek McGhee

10 Sex Differences in Labor Markets
David Neumark

11 Women, Activism and Social Change
Edited by Maja Mikula

12 The Gender of Democracy
Citizenship and Gendered Subjectivity
Maro Pantelidou Maloutas

13 Female Homosexuality in the Middle East
Histories and Representations
Samar Habib

14 Global Empowerment of Women
Responses to Globalization and Politicized Religions
Edited by Carolyn M. Elliott

15 Child Abuse, Gender and Society
Jackie Turton

16 Gendering Global Transformations
Gender, Culture, Race, and Identity
Edited by Chima J Korieh and Philomina Ihejirika-Okeke

17 Gender, Race and National Identity
Nations of Flesh and Blood
Jackie Hogan

18 Intimate Citizenships
Gender, Sexualities, Politics
Elbieta H. Oleksy

19 A Philosophical Investigation of Rape
The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self
Louise du Toit

20 Migrant Men
Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration Experience
Edited by Mike Donaldson, Raymond Hibbins, Richard Howson and Bob Pease

21 Theorizing Sexual Violence
Edited by Rene J. Heberle and Victoria Grace

22 Inclusive Masculinity
The Changing Nature of Masculinities
Eric Anderson

23 Understanding Non-Monogamies
Edited by Meg Barker and Darren Langdridge

24 Transgender Identities
Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity
Edited by Sally Hines and Tam Sanger

25 The Cultural Politics of Female Sexuality in South Africa
Henriette Gunkel

26 Migration, Domestic Work and Affect
A Decolonial Approach on Value and the Feminization of Labor
Encarnacin Gutirrez-Rodrguez

27 Overcoming Objectification
A Carnal Ethics
Ann J. Cahill

28 Intimate Partner Violence in LGBTQ Lives
Edited by Janice L. Ristock

29 Contesting the Politics of Genocidal Rape
Affirming the Dignity of the Vulnerable Body
Debra B. Bergoffen

30 Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women
Diasporic Daughters
Youna Kim

31 Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads
Intersectional Womens Studies for Transracial Alliance
Edited by Kim Marie Vaz and Gary L. Lemons

32 Victims, Gender and Jouissance
Victoria Grace

33 Gender, Development and Environmental Governance
Theorizing Connections
Seema Arora-Jonsson

34 Street Sex Workers Discourse
Realizing Material Change Through Agential Choice
Jill McCracken

35 Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Agency
South Asian Women Organizing
Shaminder Takhar

36 Ecofeminism and Systems Thinking
Anne Stephens

37 Queer Women in Urban China
An Ethnography
Elisabeth L. Engebretsen

38 Gender and Rural Migration
Realities, Conflict and Change
Edited by Glenda Tibe Bonifacio

39 Gender and Neoliberalism
The All India Democratic Womens Association and Globalization Politics
Elisabeth Armstrong

40 Asexualities
Feminist and Queer Perspectives
Edited by Karli June Cerankowski and Megan Milks

41 Cross-Cultural Women Scholars in Academe
Intergenerational Voices
Edited by Lorri J. Santamara, Gatane Jean-Marie, and Cosette M. Grant

Intergenerational Voices

Edited by Lorri J. Santamara ,
Gatane Jean-Marie , and
Cosette M. Grant

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cross-cultural women scholars in academe: intergenerational voices /
edited by Lorri J. Santamara, Ga Jean-Marie, and Cosette M. Grant.
pages cm. (Routledge research in gender and society; 41)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Women in higher education. 2. Minority women in
higher education. 3. Women college teachers. 4. Women
scholars. 5. Educational leadership. I. Santamara, Lorri J.