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How do you navigate the terrain of academia, a landscape that is particular and specific to each traveler, building compasses to chart the way? This chapter weaves together my journey into academia with memories of my mother, building compasses of daughter/womanhood along the way. I tell a narrative of becoming woman/daughter that follows a zigzagging voyage from New York to Alabama, a journey of leavings and loss intertwined with my mother’s diagnosis and death. Simultaneously, I consider the ethical and emotional entanglements of daughterhood in the present: the possibilities for tellings and (re)presentations that embrace complication and nuance, and the responsibility and accountability I have to my family as I tell this story and continue my journey in academia.
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Flint, M.A. (2018). Building a Compass: Leaving, Loss, and Daughterhood in Academia. In: Shelton, S., Flynn, J., Grosland, T. (eds) Feminism and Intersectionality in Academia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90590-7_3
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