ABSTRACT

What do we, as women, give up? What does it mean to give up as a woman in academia? We explored this question through a study with women doctoral students to reframe giving up as a purposeful, willful act. Sara Ahmed describes willfulness in relation to women who are perceived as resisting norms, shifting away from normative expectations, refusing what is expected. In this work, we push against the prevailing discourses of women in academia as passively encountering problems, facing issues, and making sacrifices. We explore what it means to give up through three women’s archives and objects of willfulness. Willfulness becomes a generative, sweaty concept through which we interrogate and understand practices of giving up by women doctoral students.

抽象的

作为女性，我们会放弃什么？在学术界放弃女性意味着什么？我们通过与女博士生进行的一项研究探讨了这个问题，将其放弃是一种有目的，故意的行为。萨拉·艾哈迈德（Sara Ahmed）描述了与被视为抵制规范，放弃规范期望，拒绝期望的女人有关的任性。在这项工作中，我们反对学术界中女性的主流话语，因为她们被动地遇到问题，面对问题并做出牺牲。我们探讨了放弃三个女性档案和故意遗弃对象的意义。任性成为一个生成性的，出汗的概念，通过它我们可以询问和理解女博士生放弃的做法。