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

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 commercialize...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education,
Subjects:
Gender identity in education.
Sociology.
Educational sociology.
Higher education.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
ISBN:9783319642246
ISSN:2524-6445
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction; Yvette Taylor & Kinneret Lahad
  • Chapter 2. Failure to Launch? Feminist Endeavours as a Partial Academic; Heather Shipley
  • Chapter 3. Feminist Conference Time: Aiming (not) to have Been There; Emily F. Henderson
  • Chapter 4. Navigating the Emotional Landscapes of Academia: Queer Encounters; Yvette Taylor
  • Chapter 5. Performing 'Foreign Talentness' in a Chinese University: An Auto-ethnographical Account; Lauren Ila Misiaszek
  • Chapter 6. Writing Yourself In? The Price of Playing the (Feminist) Game in Academia; Sarah Burton
  • Chapter 7. Work and Neoliberal-corporatist University; Laura Lovin
  • Chapter 8. Feel the Fear and 'Feminist' Anyway: Being a Challenging Presence in the Neoliberal University; Órla Meadhbh
  • Chapter 9. Feeling Ambivalent in Early Career Academia: Auto-ethnographic Tales of 'Success' and 'Failure'; Maddie Breeze
  • Chapter 10. Gender and Waiting in Everyday Academic Life; Barbara Read & Lisa Bradley
  • Chapter 11. A Long Goodbye to the 'Good Girl': An Auto-ethnographic Account; Pat Thomson
  • Chapter 12. Being and Becoming Academic: A Collaborative Exploration of Academic Identities; Susanne Gannon, Karin MacKay, Sarah Powell & Clare Power
  • Chapter 13. Crying on Campus; Daphna Hacker
  • Chapter 14. When Love Becomes Self-abuse: Gendered Perspectives on Unpaid Labor in Academia; Francesca Coin
  • Chapter 15. Teaching Gender in a Postfeminist Management classroom; Nick Rumens
  • Chapter 16. Digital Scholars: A Feeling for the Academic Game; Cristina Costa.

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