Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership

Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership makes explicit the ways in which a grounding in feminist theory and practice impacts the work of library administrators who identify as feminists.

Recent scholarship by LIS researchers and practitioners on the intersections of gender with sexuality, race, class, and other social categories within libraries and other information environments have highlighted the need and desire of this community to engage with these concepts both in theory and praxis.

Feminists Among Us adds to this conversation by focusing on a subset of feminist LIS professionals and researchers in leadership roles who engage critically with both management work and librarianship. By collecting these often implicit professional acts, interactions, and dynamics and naming them as explicitly feminist, these accounts both document aspects of an existing community of practice as well as invite fellow feminists, advocates, and resisters to consider library leadership as a career path.

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Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership

Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership makes explicit the ways in which a grounding in feminist theory and practice impacts the work of library administrators who identify as feminists.

Recent scholarship by LIS researchers and practitioners on the intersections of gender with sexuality, race, class, and other social categories within libraries and other information environments have highlighted the need and desire of this community to engage with these concepts both in theory and praxis.

Feminists Among Us adds to this conversation by focusing on a subset of feminist LIS professionals and researchers in leadership roles who engage critically with both management work and librarianship. By collecting these often implicit professional acts, interactions, and dynamics and naming them as explicitly feminist, these accounts both document aspects of an existing community of practice as well as invite fellow feminists, advocates, and resisters to consider library leadership as a career path.

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Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership

Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership

Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership

Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership

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Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership makes explicit the ways in which a grounding in feminist theory and practice impacts the work of library administrators who identify as feminists.

Recent scholarship by LIS researchers and practitioners on the intersections of gender with sexuality, race, class, and other social categories within libraries and other information environments have highlighted the need and desire of this community to engage with these concepts both in theory and praxis.

Feminists Among Us adds to this conversation by focusing on a subset of feminist LIS professionals and researchers in leadership roles who engage critically with both management work and librarianship. By collecting these often implicit professional acts, interactions, and dynamics and naming them as explicitly feminist, these accounts both document aspects of an existing community of practice as well as invite fellow feminists, advocates, and resisters to consider library leadership as a career path.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781634000277
Publisher: Library Juice Press
Publication date: 10/14/2017
Series: Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies , #9
Pages: 210
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.44(d)

Table of Contents



Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Shirley Lew & Baharak Yousefi

Always a Novice: Feminist Learning and Leadership Practice

Maura A. Smale

Creating a Path to Feminist Leadership

Shirley Lew

A Feminist Critique of Servant Leadership

Lisa Richmond

Embracing the Feminization of Librarianship

Shana Higgins

On the Disparity Between What We Say and What We Do in Libraries

Baharak Yousefi

How We Speak, How We Think, What We Do: Leading Intersectional Feminist Conversations in Libraries

Rachel Fleming and Kelly McBride

One Library, Two Cultures

Dale Askey and Jennifer Askey

Feminist Praxis in Library Leadership

April M. Hathcock and Jennifer Vinopal

A Feminist Among Us: An Interview with Chris Bourg

Tara Robertson

About the Contributors

Index

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