College Composition and Communication Sep 2022

Misogyny and the Norm of Recognition in Graduate English Programs

Amy E. Robillard

Abstract

Drawing on interviews with ten female-identifying graduate students, this article theorizes a norm of recognition and argues that recognition, conceptualized as a masculine-coded good, circulates away from female graduate students toward faculty and from faculty back to male graduate students. Female graduate students instead experience misogyny, understood as a punishment for straying from patriarchal gender roles in which they are required to be givers.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2022-09-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc202232118
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graduate education gender and writing
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