Feeling Academic in the Neoliberal University

Feminist Flights, Fights and Failures
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-87751-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 501 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education

Highlights the difficulties of holding a position within academia and how these might differ across the career span

Draws together an international and interdisciplinary range of contributions to present a variety of experiences

Asks whether feminist spaces can offer freedom or flight from the corporatized and commercialised neoliberal university

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lahad, Kinneret

Taylor, Yvette

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Geschlechterpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Soziologie, Bildungssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Hochschuldidaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 ‘GoodGirl’: 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.

Über Autor(innen)

Yvette Taylor is Professor of Education at the University of Strathclyde, UK, and has held a Fulbright Scholarship at Rutgers University, USA, in 2010-2011, as well as a British Academy mid-career fellowship 'Critical Terrain: Dividing Lines and Lives' in 2013-2014.
Kinneret Lahad is a senior lecturer at the NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, USA, Venice International University and Ca'Foscari University, Italy, and an honorary research fellow at Manchester University, UK.