Mentoring in Academe A Feminist Poststructural Lens on Stories of Women Engineering Faculty of Color

We analyzed the mentoring narratives of women of color in faculty in engineering using feminist poststructural narratological lenses. We found that university mentoring systems were designed to align with master narratives of mentoring but did not coincide with women faculty’s own mentoring stories....

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Published inManagement communication quarterly Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 440 - 457
Main Authors Buzzanell, Patrice M., Long, Ziyu, Anderson, Lindsey B., Kokini, Klod, Batra, Jennifer C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.08.2015
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Corporate culture
Engineers
Mentoring programs
Narratives
STEM education
University faculty
Womens studies
career
poststructural
meaningful work
gender
race
narrative
dignity
mentoring
engineering
STEM
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ISSN0893-3189
1552-6798
DOI10.1177/0893318915574311

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Summary:We analyzed the mentoring narratives of women of color in faculty in engineering using feminist poststructural narratological lenses. We found that university mentoring systems were designed to align with master narratives of mentoring but did not coincide with women faculty’s own mentoring stories. Specifically, women engineers regarded their mentee experiences and cultures of mentoring with varying levels of suspicion, ambiguity, vulnerability, and dis/enchantment that became embodied in alternative subject positions, emplotments, and agency. We contribute to greater understandings of mentoring processes as well as difference and inclusion in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) academic workplaces.
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ISSN:0893-3189
1552-6798
DOI:10.1177/0893318915574311