Overview
- Explores the role of feminist voice and feminist talk in contemporary university settings
- Explores the impact of ongoing neo-liberal and profit-driven changes in universities on feminist academics
- Draws on personal interviews with feminist academics to demonstrate the performative and discursive strategies they use to negotiate the neoliberal university
- Reveals how feminist academics encounter and create spaces where feminist knowledge and practices are privileged over neoliberal-patriarchal ones
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education (GED)
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“The neoliberal university makes much of their gender equity policies and high participation rates of women, yet antagonism to feminism and feminists, in all our diversities, is constant and virulent. We must take on the ‘masters’ both using and smashing their tools (to misquote Audre Lorde). Briony Lipton and Liz Mackinlay demonstrate how, in this sweeping yet rigorous analysis. It could be read as a narrative of paralysing negative experiences, but equally as a manual for feminist resistance.” (Dr Jeannie Rea, National President of the National Tertiary Education Union, and academic at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia)
“We Only Talk Feminist Here is a brave and exciting work that challenges conventional approaches to academic writing. Drawing on creative anecdotes, an archive of interviews with academic women, and an extensive body of feminist literature, this book provides a unique insight into being feminist in the contemporary space of the neoliberal university… [It] will no doubt contribute meaningfully to feminist discussions more broadly.” (Dr Hannah McCann, Lecturer, Gender Studies, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia)
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Elizabeth Mackinlay is Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Queensland, Australia. Her current research projects include the politics and pedagogies of Indigenous Australian studies, mentoring Indigenous pre-service teachers, autoethnography, and feminism in higher education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: We Only Talk Feminist Here
Book Subtitle: Feminist Academics, Voice and Agency in the Neoliberal University
Authors: Briony Lipton, Elizabeth Mackinlay
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40078-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40077-8Published: 15 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82027-9Published: 04 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40078-5Published: 01 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2524-6445
Series E-ISSN: 2524-6453
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 128
Topics: Gender and Education, Higher Education, Sociology of Education, Gender Studies, Feminism, Discourse Analysis