The Positioning and Making of Female Professors

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Positioning and Making of Female Academics—A Review of the Literature

Chapter 2 Being Tough, Being Humorous and Being Explicitly Feminist—The “Intrinsically Disordered Nature” of My Ways Around Academia

Chapter 3 ‘You Must Wait to Be Asked’: Career Advancement and the Maternal Body

Chapter 4 Babies Taught Me How to “Do” Academia: Crafting a Career in an Institution That Was Not Built for Mothers

Chapter 5 Writing Myself into an Academic Career

Chapter 6 Academic Fluidity? An Unconventional Route to the Professoriate

Chapter 8 Actively Constructing Yourself as a Professor: After Appointment

Chapter 9 Mis-Making an Academic Career: Power, Discipline, Structures, and Practices

Chapter 10 A Personal Journey of a Long and Winding Road to Professorial Status: An Alternative Pathway and the Challenges, Trials and Tribulations

Chapter 11 How to Fall into a Career Trap (Without Even Realising)

Chapter 12 Conclusion: The Process of Becoming a Woman Professor and Unbecoming Gender Equality: A Female Drama of Resistance