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200 10$aWorking the spaces of power $eactivism, neoliberalism and gendered labour /$fJanet Newman
210  1$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2012.
215   $a1 online resource (xiii, 212 pages)
311   $a1-84966-500-1 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aIntroduction: research as mapmaking -- Talking politics -- Perverse alignments: women's activism and the governmentalization of community -- Close encounters: feminism, policy and the remaking of governance -- Modernizing moments: work, organizations and the entrepreneurial self -- Critical engagements: knowledge-work as political practice -- Border work: generating spaces of power -- Activism, neoliberalism and gendered labour -- Postscript: speaking to the present -- Appendix: conducting the research-ethics, methods and modes of analysis.
330   $aThis book highlights the way in which contemporary forms of governance, policy and politics have been reframed by women 'working the spaces of power'. It shows how links between activism and work have generated innovations that have since become 'common sense' forms of policy and practice.
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