Academic Women in Neoliberal Times

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-45061-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 281 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 503 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education

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. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lipton, Briony

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Berufs- und Studienberatung, Karriereplanung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Geschlechterpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Soziologie, Bildungssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.