Women in Scholarly Publishing A Gender Perspective

1. Women and the construction and valuing of knowledge in academia

Anna Kristina Hultgren and Pejman Habibie

Section I: Discourses and Barriers

2. Perceived gender inequities in the scholarly publishing process: before, during and after

Sharon McCulloch

3. "Women Serve": Discourses, Identities, and Scholarly Publishing Decisions

Kathleen Vacek

4. Academic Texts: Gender, Writing, and the Academy

S. Laurie Hill

5. Gender and Academic Publishing on the Semi-Periphery: Stories from Iceland

Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir and Hafdís Ingvarsdóttir

6. The impact of COVID-19 on scholarly publication practices of Turkish female and male scholars

Serpil Meri-Yilan

Section II: Context and Variation

7. Beyond Essentialism: Situating Gender and Academic Publishing

Lynn P. Nygaard, Dag W. Aksnes and Fredrik Niclas Piro

8. Gender differences in South African scholarly output, 2005–2016: Variation across scientific domains

Heidi Prozesky and Milandré van Lill

9. When the scales of home and the academy collapse: Gender roles and chronotopes in online discussions of scholarly publishing during the Covid-19 lockdown

Kate O’Farrell, Maria Kuteeva, Josep Soler

10. The impact of blurred boundaries on the personal and professional selves of academics: A collaborative autoethnography of challenges faced by Mauritian academics engaged in academic writing during the COVID 19 pandemic

Rajendra Korlapu-Bungaree, Yesha Mahadeo Doorgakant and Meda Charisma Thondee

11. Gender, Editorship and Gatekeeping in the Field of Linguistics: An Empirical Study of Academic Handbooks from the 1980s to the 2020s

Mieke Vandenbroucke, Reinhild Vandekerckhove and Lisa Hilte

Section III: Agency and Transformation

12. Making the home a site for slow, caring scholarship: Gendered experiences of writing for publication in Covid-19 times and beyond

Verity Aiken and Lia Blaj-Ward

13. Mapping Contours of Gender and Knowledge Production: Towards Scholarly Writing as Gifts of Knowledge

Mairi McDermott

14. Technofeminist Editorial Mentoring and the Future of Digital Scholarly Publication

Kristine L. Blair

15. Women’s Work: Scholarship, Voice, and Resistance in the Academic Generation of Knowledge

Linnea Spitzer and Karen Haley

16. Disrupting structures that disrupt women’s writing

Rowena Murray

17. Interrupting caring with care: Writing retreats for academic caregivers

Kathryn A. Sutherland, Chris Deak, Rhian Salmon and Kate Schick

Biography

Anna Kristina Hultgren is Professor of Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at The Open University, UK. Her work has been published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language in Society, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, and others. Kristina serves on the editorial boards of Applied Linguistics, Journal of English-Medium Instruction, Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes, Journal of Applied Language Studies, and Routledge Studies in English-Medium Instruction.

Pejman Habibie is Assistant Professor of TESOL at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is also a founding co-editor of the Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes and the book series Routledge Studies in English for Research Publication Purposes. His research interests and scholarly publications focus on the geopolitics of knowledge construction and circulation, writing for scholarly publication and academic literacies. His work has been published in international journals such as The Annual Review of Applied Linguistics and The Journal of Second Language Writing, among others.

"Focusing on the domain of scholarly publishing, this volume pinpoints how gender still creates significant disparities in academia worldwide. Persistent gender inequalities in the academic world have been studied from many perspectives. But the area of publishing – key to academic prestige and power – is conspicuously underresearched. Looking not only on gendered inequalities in publishing, but also on strategies to resist and overcome them in different geopolitical locations, this crucial volume fills an important gap. "

–Nina Lykke, Professor Emerita, Dr. Phil. Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark

"Studies continue to point to the ‘masculinist bias’ at work in writing for scholarly publication. Through 18 innovative chapters, Anna Kristina Hultgren and Pejman Habibie’s excellent collection explores the roots of gender inequality in the academy from a range of global and disciplinary perspectives while providing us with hope that the status quo can be challenged.

The chapters interrogate four intersecting themes that scaffold its architecture: what it means for women to write across discourses and genres; how gender operates as a key aspect of identity work; what constitutes the gendered labour of academic writing; what the gendered impacts of the material conditions of academic work might be. They draw on a range of epistemologies, ontologies and writing styles to open up for scrutiny topics that still remain occluded in today’s academy.

I encourage novice and more experienced scholars, journal editors and reviewers as well as university colleagues in leadership roles to spend time delving into the richness and complexity of Women in Scholarly Publishing. There is much to be learned."

–Sue Starfield, Emeritus Professor, University of New South Wales