Making Time to Write: How to Resist the Patriarchy and Take Control of Your Academic Career Through Writing
Publishing is the currency of academia. But if publishing is so important, why is it so hard to find time to write? 

Making Time to Write exposes how women’s experiences with writing in their careers are mired in the racist, ableist, patriarchal culture of academia that was built to exclude them. Building on her experience navigating the academy to become a tenured, full professor, and her work as a writing and career coach for hundreds of academic womxn, Cathy Mazak guides readers through the work of finding and honoring writing time. In the process, readers learn to build their careers around their writing practice instead of letting writing occupy the edges. From mindset work to creating a relationship-based writing system, Making Time to Write shatters the myths around writing every day (you don’t have to), accountability (it’s paternalistic), and motivation (it blames the victim). More than just a how-to guide, Making Time To Write is a manifesto on the feminizing of academic culture through reshaping women’s writing practices.

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Making Time to Write: How to Resist the Patriarchy and Take Control of Your Academic Career Through Writing
Publishing is the currency of academia. But if publishing is so important, why is it so hard to find time to write? 

Making Time to Write exposes how women’s experiences with writing in their careers are mired in the racist, ableist, patriarchal culture of academia that was built to exclude them. Building on her experience navigating the academy to become a tenured, full professor, and her work as a writing and career coach for hundreds of academic womxn, Cathy Mazak guides readers through the work of finding and honoring writing time. In the process, readers learn to build their careers around their writing practice instead of letting writing occupy the edges. From mindset work to creating a relationship-based writing system, Making Time to Write shatters the myths around writing every day (you don’t have to), accountability (it’s paternalistic), and motivation (it blames the victim). More than just a how-to guide, Making Time To Write is a manifesto on the feminizing of academic culture through reshaping women’s writing practices.

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Making Time to Write: How to Resist the Patriarchy and Take Control of Your Academic Career Through Writing

Making Time to Write: How to Resist the Patriarchy and Take Control of Your Academic Career Through Writing

by Cathy Mazak PhD
Making Time to Write: How to Resist the Patriarchy and Take Control of Your Academic Career Through Writing
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Making Time to Write: How to Resist the Patriarchy and Take Control of Your Academic Career Through Writing

by Cathy Mazak PhD

Overview

Publishing is the currency of academia. But if publishing is so important, why is it so hard to find time to write? 

Making Time to Write exposes how women’s experiences with writing in their careers are mired in the racist, ableist, patriarchal culture of academia that was built to exclude them. Building on her experience navigating the academy to become a tenured, full professor, and her work as a writing and career coach for hundreds of academic womxn, Cathy Mazak guides readers through the work of finding and honoring writing time. In the process, readers learn to build their careers around their writing practice instead of letting writing occupy the edges. From mindset work to creating a relationship-based writing system, Making Time to Write shatters the myths around writing every day (you don’t have to), accountability (it’s paternalistic), and motivation (it blames the victim). More than just a how-to guide, Making Time To Write is a manifesto on the feminizing of academic culture through reshaping women’s writing practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781631958212
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Publication date: 08/16/2022
Pages: 182
Product dimensions: 4.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Cathy Mazak was a tenured, full professor when she founded a writing coaching company for women professors, researchers, and doctoral students. Cathy and her team are dedicated to changing the way that academic women leverage writing and publication to create the careers and lives they want through courses and group coaching programs. Cathy has a PhD from Michigan State Universityand is the editor of several scholarly collections and the author of numerous textbooks and academic journal articles. In her work as a professor at The University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez she attracted external funding for her work in bilingualism and higher education and co-founded a research center. Her popular podcast, Academic Women Amplified, teaches how to use writing to resist the racist, ableist, patriarchal culture of academia. Cathy lives in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Part 1 It's Not You, It's the Patriarchy 1

Chapter 1 How Academia is Structured, to Keep Womxn from Writing 3

Chapter 2 The Danger of the Twin Scarcities 19

Part 2 Building a Sustainable, Relationship-Based Writing Practice 43

Chapter 3 Soaring versus Slogging 45

Chapter 4 Writing at the Center 73

Chapter 5 The Myth of Accountability (And What You Need Instead) 91

Part 3 Resisting "Shoulds" 105

Chapter 6 Stop "Shoulding" Yourself 107

Chapter 7 When Writing Gets Derailed 121

Chapter 8 The Role of Rest in Writing 141

Conclusion: Writing as Transformation 153

About the Author 161

Endnotes 163

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