Working the spaces of power : activism, neoliberalism and gendered labour / / Janet Newman

• Autore: Newman Janet
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 212 pages)
• Soggetto topico: Neoliberalism; Political planning; Women - Political activity
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Talking politics: power, agency and identity -- Chapter 3: Being 'inside/outsde': working lives, politics and social change -- Chapter 4: Spaces of power: feminism, social policy and the gendering of governance -- Chapter 5: Perverse alignments: activism and the governmentalization of 'community' -- Chapter 6: Culture work: institutional change and the dilemmas of 'leadership' -- Chapter 7: Knowledge work: feminist social science and the paradoxes of post structuralism -- Chapter 8: Austerity politics, the Big Society and the regendering of governance -- Chapter 9: Feminism and neoliberalism? Paradigms of social and political change"
• Sommario/riassunto: "This 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 they took activist commitments into their working lives, in the process negotiating the terrain of neoliberal governance. Their work generated new political movements, community initiatives, public policies, organizational logics and forms of 'knowledge work'. Newman draws on over 50 interviews with women from four generations to interrogate, develop and challenge existing approaches to understanding social and political change. In a postscript she traces ways in which the analysis might 'speak to the present' and offer resources for contemporary politics and practice."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Titolo autorizzato: Working the Spaces of Power
• ISBN: 1-84966-672-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996198799903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno