Feminist Repetitions in Higher Education (eBook)

Interrupting Career Categories

Maddie Breeze, Yvette Taylor (Autoren)

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2020
XVIII, 129 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-53661-9 (ISBN)

Infos

To do feminism and to be a feminist in higher education is to repeat oneself: to insist on gender equality as more than institutional incorporation and diversity auditing, to insert oneself into and against neoliberal measures, and to argue for nuanced intersectional feminist analysis and action. This book returns to established feminist strategies for taking up academic space, re-thinking how feminists inhabit the university and pushing back against institutional failures. The authors assert the academic career course as fundamental to understanding how feminist educational journeys, collaborations and cares and ways of knowing stretch across and reconstitute academic hierarchies, collectivising and politicising feminist career successes and failures. By prioritising interruptions, the book navigates through feminist methods of researcher reflexivity, autoethnography and collective biography: in doing so, moving from feminist identity to feminist practice and repeating the potential of queer feminist interruptions to the university and ourselves. ?

Maddie Breeze is Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, UK. She is a feminist sociologist researching educational inequalities, particularly in higher education, widening participation, and academic identities. Her first book Seriousness in Women's Roller Derby was awarded the 2016 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.

 

Yvette Taylor is Professor at the University of Strathclyde, UK. She is a feminist sociologist and researches intersecting social inequalities, often around manifestations of gender, social class and sexuality. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, teaches on the MSc in Applied Gender Studies, and edits the Palgrave Gender and Education Series. 

Inhalt

Foreword 6
Acknowledgements 11
Praise for Feminist Repetitions in Higher Education 14
Contents 15
Chapter 1: Stretching Career Stages 17
Feminist Repetitions 23
Revisiting Career Categories 26
Methodological Interruptions 30
Knowing Feminist Repetitions 31
Methods: Interrupting Each Other and Ourselves 33
Introducing Ourselves 35
References 38
Chapter 2: Moving On, Getting Stuck, Going Round and Round: Feminist Educational Journeys 44
Introduction 45
Institutional (Dis)locations 49
(Inter)national (Im)mobilities 51
Queer Feminists Fixed in Place 55
Conclusion 58
References 60
Chapter 3: Care(er)ing: Queer Feminist Career Cares 63
Introduction 64
Who Cares? 68
Care-Full Misrecognitions 72
Failing Care Queerly 75
Conclusion 77
References 79
Chapter 4: Futures and Failures in Feminist Leadership 83
Introduction 84
Future Feminist Leaders 89
Mentoring: Feminists Holding On 93
(Mis)recognising Feminist Leadership 96
Conclusion 101
References 102
Chapter 5: Knowing Feminists: The (Mis)use of (Our)selves 105
Introduction 106
Claiming (Mis)recognition: (En)title(ment) 111
Feminist Impositions? 115
Interrupting Feminist Failures 118
Conclusion 121
References 122
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Repeating Feminism, Interrupting Ourselves 126
References 137
Index 139

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
• Zusatzinfo: XVIII, 129 p. 1 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: academic labour • auto-ethnography • Being a feminist academic • Career Categories • Embodiment in higher education • Emotions in higher education • Feminism in higher education
• ISBN-10: 3-030-53661-0 / 3030536610
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-53661-9 / 9783030536619