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Record Nr.

UNINA9910410009503321

Autore

Lipton Briony

Titolo

Academic Women in Neoliberal Times / / by Briony Lipton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-45062-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education, , 2524-6445

Disciplina

376.6509436

370

Soggetti

Gender identity in education

Sociology

Higher education

Educational sociology

Educational sociology 

Education and sociology

Career education

Gender and Education

Gender Studies

Higher Education

Sociology of Education

Career Skills

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. .