Academic Women in Neoliberal Times (eBook)

Briony Lipton (Autor)

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2020
XV, 281 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
9783030450625 (ISBN)

Infos

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. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.6.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
• Zusatzinfo: XV, 281 p. 7 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• 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: 9783030450625 / 9783030450625