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Feminist Fissures: Navigating Conflict In Mentoring Relationships, Kathryn Gindlesparger, Holly Ryan
Feminist Fissures: Navigating Conflict In Mentoring Relationships, Kathryn Gindlesparger, Holly Ryan
College of Humanities and Sciences Faculty Papers
Scholarship in rhetoric and composition has richly addressed the role of feminist mentoring and how a feminist perspective of mentoring might work across various mentoring configurations. However, there is little feminist rhetorical scholarship that discusses the transition from a graduate mentoring group to a faculty mentoring group. This case study examines how one group navigated the change from graduate mentors to faculty mentors, revealing how unarticulated conflict lead to the end of the relationships. In unpacking this narrative, this article argues that feminist mentoring scholarship has not done enough to openly discuss the role of conflict in mentoring. Lacking scholarship …