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14 Critical Criminology 1 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/ctlcrm14 and id is 1 raw text is: Critical Criminology (2006) 14: 1-21                © Springer 2006
DOI 10.1007/s10612-005-3190-1
THOUGHTS ON FEMINIST MENTORING: EXPERIENCES
OF FACULTY MEMBERS FROM TWO GENERATIONS
IN THE ACADEMY
MEDA CHESNEY-LIND
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
SCOTT K. OKAMOTO
Hawai'i Pacific University
KATHERINE IRWIN
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
This chapter provides three perspectives on feminist mentoring from
two generations of faculty. After a brief review of the traditional
mentoring and feminist/multicultural mentoring literatures, Meda
Chesney-Lind begins the discussion with some thoughts on survival
strategies that she has gleaned from decades of work in the academy.
Her reflections on teaching, research, and service in the academy suggest
pathways to success for those who study and/or are within the social
and academic minority (e.g., women and/or people of color). Scott
Okamoto then illustrates how he has put some of these reflections into
practice. He describes his own experiences and challenges in the acad-
emy, having just started a teaching career as a feminist man of color.
Finally, Katherine (Katy) Irwin describes her own experiences as a
woman faculty member who has also just begun her career. The chapter
concludes with some joint reflections on what feminist mentoring has
been and what it must become to assure that the academy is a workplace
that genuinely permits an increasingly diverse faculty to not only survive
but to thrive.
Traditional and Feminist/Multicultural Mentoring Literatures
Traditional models of mentorship have been described extensively in
the research literature. Crosby (1999) outlines different definitions of

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