Authors: Guofang Li (Editor), Gulbahar H. Beckett (Editor), Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
ISBN-13: 9781579221218, ISBN-10: 1579221211
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Stylus Publishing
Date Published: November 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Guofang Li is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education, University of Buffalo (SUNY).
Gulbahar H. Beckett is an Assistant Professor in the College of Education, University of Cincinnati.
No less than other minorities, Asian women scholars are confronted with racial discrimination and stereotyping as well as disrespect for their research, teaching, and leadership, and are underrepresented in academia.
In the face of such barriers, many Asian female scholars have developed strategies to survive and thrive. This book is among the first to examine their lived experience in Western academic discourses. It addresses the socio-cultural, political, academic, and personal issues that Asian female scholars encounter in higher education.
The contributors to this book include first- and second-generation immigrants who are teachers and researchers in higher education and who come from a wide range of Asian nations and backgrounds. They here combine new research and personal narratives to explore the intersecting layers of relationships that impact their lives—language, culture, academic discourses, gender, class, generation, and race. The book is replete with the richness and complexity of these scholars’ struggles and triumphs in their professional and personal realms.
This powerful and engaging volume:
* Examines and celebrates the struggles and triumphs that Asian female scholars experience as they try to “make it” in academic environments that may differ sharply from the culture of their countries of origin;
* Highlights the unique contributions the authors have made to research, theory, and the profession;
* Establishes the authors’ claim to visibility and a voice for themselves and more generally for Asian women in the academy;
* Opens a dialogue on these critical issues by sharing the academic and personal experiences of senior and junior scholars alike; and
* Contributes to the on-going discussion on issues pertinent to the status of minority female scholars in higher education.
Acknowledgments | xi | |
Foreword: Identities Asian, Female, Scholar Critiques and Celebrations of the North American Academy | xiii | |
Introduction: Reconstructing Culture and Identity in the Academy: Asian Female Scholars Theorizing Their Experiences | 1 | |
Part 1 | Asian Female Scholars in Context | |
1 | Asian Pacific American Women and Men in Higher Education: The Contested Spaces of Their Participation, Persistence, and Challenges as Students, Faculty, and Administrators | 15 |
2 | Asian American Gender Gap in Science and Technology: Tracking Male versus Female College Students' Paths toward Academic Careers | 37 |
3 | Theorizing Experiences of Asian Women Faculty in Second- and Foreign-Language Teacher Education | 56 |
Part 2 | Teaching, Mentoring, Advising, and Securing Tenure | |
4 | Professing in a Nonnative Tongue: Narrative Construction of Realities and Opportunities | 85 |
5 | Multiple Mentors in my Career as a University Faculty | 105 |
6 | Navigating Multiple Roles and Multiple Discourses: A Young Asian Female Scholar's Reflection on Within-Race-and-Gender Interactions | 118 |
7 | Asian American Women in the Academy: Overcoming Stress and Overturning Denials in Advancement | 134 |
Part 3 | Gaining Voice, Forming Identity | |
8 | Brown in Black and White: On Being a South Asian Woman Academic | 163 |
9 | Unmasking the Self: Struggling with the Model Minority Stereotype and Lotus Blossom Image | 178 |
10 | Within the "Safe Haven" of Women's Studies: A Thai Female Faculty's Reflection on Identity and Scholarship | 195 |
11 | Between the Worlds: Searching for a Competent Voice | 211 |
12 | Moderation, Modesty, Creativity, and Criticalness: A Chinese American Medical Professor Speaks | 233 |
Part 4 | Building Bridges, Building the Future | |
13 | The Road Less Traveled: An Asian Woman Immigrant Faculty's Experience Practicing Global Pedagogy in Teacher Education | 251 |
14 | From Mentorship to Friendship, Collaboration, and Collegiality | 266 |
15 | Building Bridges, Working for a Better World | 289 |
Editors and Contributors | 307 | |
Index | 313 |