Feeling Academic in the Neoliberal University : Feminist Flights, Fights and Failures /

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Imprint:Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Description:1 online resource (XVII, 368 pages) : online resource
Language:English
Series:Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
Palgrave studies in gender and education.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12574010
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Other authors / contributors:Taylor, Yvette, editor.
Lahad, Kinneret, editor.
ISBN:9783319642246
3319642243
9783319642239
Digital file characteristics:text file
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
Summary:This book offers a contemporary account of what it means to inhabit academia as a privilege, risk, entitlement or a failure. Drawing on international perspectives from a range of academic disciplines, it asks whether feminist spaces can offer freedom or flight from the corporatized and commercialized neoliberal university. How are feminist voices felt, heard, received, silenced, and masked? What is it to be a feminist academic in the neoliberal university? How are expectations, entitlements and burdens felt in inhabiting feminist positions and what of 'bad feeling' or 'unhappiness' amongst feminists? The volume consider these issues from across the career course, including from 'early career' and senior established scholars, as these diverse categories are themselves entangled in academic structures, sentiments and subjectivities; they are solidified in, for example, entry and promotion schemes as well as funding calls, and they ask us to identify in particular stages of 'being' or 'becoming' academic, while arguably denying the possibility of ever arriving. It will be essential reading for students and researchers in the areas of Education, Sociology, and Gender Studies.
Other form:Printed edition: 9783319642239
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-319-64224-6.