Women Activating Agency in Academia seeks to create and expand safe spaces for scholarly, professional and personal stories and assemblages of agency. It provides a place to connect with the strategies women are using, and it explores core values of female academics linked to trust, relationship, wellbeing and ethics of care.

List of figures; List of contributors; Preface; Chapter 1 Telling stories, gaining wisdom: putting our voices into our practice; Chapter 2 You're not alone: discovering the power of sharing life narratives as academic women; Chapter 3 Responding to longings for slow scholarship: writing ourselves into being; Chapter 4 "We would love to have you over . . . ": building career capital in a new academic environment; Chapter 5 How yoga taught me about vocation; Chapter 6 Intergenerational bodies: women's knowledge production in supervisory relations; Chapter 7 Feasible utopias and affective flows in the academy: a mobilisation of hope and optimism; Chapter 8 Beyond silence and conformity: a reflection on academic activism as resistance to managerialism in the contemporary university; Chapter 9 Academia as therapy; Chapter 10 Travellers: traversing the academic landscape: a dialogue; Chapter 11 Confronting, collaborating, and crafting: an enlivening methodology for academic ecojustice activism; Chapter 12 Women writing to ourselves: rescuing the girl child from androcentricity; Chapter 13 Embracing the power of the self as a female scholar; Chapter 14 Vulnerability: an uncomfortable means to a positive place; Chapter 15 PhD: Pivotal Heart Development; Chapter 16 Stretching the elastic: can we change the heart of university management?; Chapter 17 To care for self and others: a collaborative conversation; Chapter 18 I am the compliant academic; Afterword; Index