Academic Women in Neoliberal Times
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Beschreibung
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.
Examines how key feminist discourses are intertwined in the university itself Uses extensive qualitative data from academic women in Australia to analyse how women manage their careers Illustrates how women generate neoliberal and feminist shifts using a mix experimental methods
Autor*in
Briony Lipton
Themen in »Academic Women in Neoliberal Times«
Women in Higher Education Academia and Neoliberalism Performativity and academia Feminism in acadmia Gender and performativity Academic women