Blurred Boundaries

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Feminist Essays on Twenty-First-Century Academic Labor

Jessica Edens McCrary, Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Jessica Enoch

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University of South Carolina Press
02 April 2026

Semantics; Gender studies: women; Organisation & management of education

How the COVID-19 pandemic revealed gendered inequities in academic labor—and how to overcome them

Although the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020 proved universally challenging, women, especially, found themselves caught between professional and familial responsibilities as work and homelife boundaries converged and collapsed. These gendered workplace struggles were not unique to the pandemic, but, rather, were exacerbated and exposed by the public health response. In Blurred Boundaries: Feminist Essays on Twenty-First-Century Academic Labor, scholars, teachers, and administrators pair eyewitness narratives with sustained interrogation of interminable labor inequities to demonstrate the ongoing dilemmas posed by gendered social and professional expectations.

Grounded in rhetoric and composition scholarship and feminist methodologies, contributors highlight systemic labor issues and suggest solutions to these embedded, ongoing problems. They pose critical questions regarding institutions' responsibilities for engaging intentional decision-making practices both to disrupt recurrent work imbalances and to support sustainable, ethically managed academic labor practices.

Afterword by: Jessica Enoch
Edited by: Jessica Edens McCrary, Lynée Lewis Gaillet
Imprint: University of South Carolina Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781643365855
ISBN 10: 1643365851
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 02 April 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Jessica Edens McCrary is associate director of the National Scholarships & Fellowships Program at Emory University. Lynée Lewis Gaillet is Distinguished University Professor of English at Georgia State University.