“I know I'm not going to have to heal from this”: Women university workers' collective writing on “office housework” as a space for building collective care, healing, and hope

How can we, as women university workers, assert collective writing as a form of resistance to embody our collective and individual struggles and convert them into words? We are a collective of five professional service and three academic women workers who came together to answer this question throug...

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Vydáno v:Gender, work, and organization Ročník 32; číslo 3; s. 1366 - 1384
Hlavní autoři: Chatrakul Na Ayudhya, Uracha, Kunter, Aylin, Harley, Kayleigh Woods, Edwards, Isobel, Molyneaux, Sarah, Nicholas, Holly, Habib, Isabelle, Sheath, Janet
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2025
Témata:
collective care
collective writing
Colleges & universities
Feminism
feminist consciousness‐raising
gendered invisibility
Healing
Higher education
Housework
invisible work
Neoliberalism
office housework
Resistance
Uncertainty
Women
Work
Workers
Writing
writing differently
ISSN:0968-6673, 1468-0432
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Shrnutí:How can we, as women university workers, assert collective writing as a form of resistance to embody our collective and individual struggles and convert them into words? We are a collective of five professional service and three academic women workers who came together to answer this question through writing about our performance of office housework and the gendered invisibility we experienced. We share our collective writing practices as a methodology to create connections and healing between workers divided along neoliberal and patriarchal university structures. Our work offers feminist epistemic resistance through the intentional joining of women university workers as co‐producers of knowledge, following the tradition of feminist consciousness‐raising groups. Our analysis problematizes the individualization of office housework. It illustrates how saying “no” individualistically is often elusive, because doing so displaces the work onto colleagues with less structural power; nor enough if we are to advance the goal of collectively reimagining how this crucial, yet invisible work can be redistributed more equally amongst all workers. Our collective writing affirms the need for office housework to be recognized and revalued as important and indispensable work that sustains the functioning of our higher education institutions, especially in times of uncertainty and crisis.
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ISSN:0968-6673
1468-0432
DOI:10.1111/gwao.13211