Description: Feminist Mentoring in Academia offers a collection of auto-ethnographic and research-based accounts of support, struggle, and resilience from the ivory tower. Scholars of communication, feminist studies, and sociology will find this book of particular interest.
Brief description: Sheri Rysdam is Associate Professor of English/Writing and Writing Center Director at Eastern Oregon University.
Review Quotes: ""Feminist Mentoring in Academia captures the powerful potential of feminist mentoring practices, from co-mentoring to sister circles, to resist, disrupt, and transform the hierarchical and alienating norms of academia. This is a timely book that is at its best when it draws from the diverse experiences of the authors, experiences that collectively point to the necessity of developing mentoring practices for faculty that move beyond traditional, institutionalized, vertical mentoring."" --Tasha N. Dubriwny, Texas A&M University