Re-signifying the vulnerabilities of academic writing in women 812 531
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https://doi.org/10.51896/easc.v2i2.709Keywords:
feminism, writing, gender equality, university, resistance to oppressionAbstract
This study reviews how female academics confront the effects of academic capitalism and patriarchal structures, which impose pressures of productivity and competitiveness, leading to silencing and self-censorship. The aim is to explore the narrated experiences of female academics regarding academic writing within a high-pressure and capitalist academic context. The research follows a qualitative methodology based on memory work, analyzing personal and collective experiences of five academics at a public university in Chile. Kintsugi is used as a metaphor to reframe “fractures” in narratives, integrating vulnerabilities and strength. The results are organized in two phases. The first presents fragments of experiences of silencing and self-censorship. The second phase shows an integrated narrative that reinterprets these moments as a network of mutual support and resistance against power structures in academia. The participating academics transform their experiences of exclusion into collective knowledge, revealing how patriarchal and neoliberal structures impose barriers while also highlighting the capacity to generate resistance and support. This work contributes to making feminist, situated writing visible as a form of resistance to the hegemonic norms of academia.
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