Academic Women in Neoliberal Times

Briony Lipton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XV, 281 Seiten

2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
9783030450618 (ISBN)

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This book investigates the gendered dimensions of academic life in the contemporary Australian university. It examines key discourses - most notably academic performativity and identity - through a feminist lens, and scrutinises how discourses of neoliberalism and feminism are entangled in the structure, systems, operations and cultures of the university. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with academic women in Australia, the author uses a mix of experimental methods to emphasise the performative and discursive decisions women make with regard to their academic careers. In doing so, this book reveals how women themselves generate neoliberal and feminist shifts, how they manage the contradictions they produce, and how they carve spaces of influence and authority. Moving towards a re-evaluation of existing discourses, this book offers new insights into gender inequality in the Australian university in neoliberal times.

Briony Lipton is an academic in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her research focuses on intersections of feminism and neoliberalism in education, and she has published widely on these topics.

Chapter 1. Prologue and introduction.- Chapter 2. Inventive methods of the intimate insider: Possibilities for feminist research.- Chapter 3.Cruel measures: Gendered excellence in research.- Chapter 4. Academics online: Reflections on gendered precarity and digital (self) surveillance.- Chapter 5. Academic conferences: Collegiality and competition.- Chapter 6. Unruly academic women: Laughter, affect, and resistance.- Chapter 7. Conclusion and Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum	29.06.2020
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
Zusatzinfo	XV, 281 p. 7 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	519 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	Academia and Neoliberalism • Academic women • Feminism in acadmia • Gender and performativity • Performativity and academia • Women in Higher Education
ISBN-13	9783030450618 / 9783030450618
Zustand	Neuware