Feminist Academics: Creative Agents For Change / Edition 1

by Louise Morley, Val Walsh

Overview

This text brings together leading feminists who explore questions of feminist interventions in organisations of knowledge production, covering both the structure and culture of academic institutions and the social divisions between women. Feminism is located as a force for change, empowering women to gain a political understanding and providing a methodology for new approaches to teaching, learning, research and writing in the academy. Contributions demonstrate how an analysis of the micropolitics of the academy in terms of power, policies, discourses, pedagogy and interpersonal relationships provides a framework for de- privatising women's experience and influencing change. Using theoretical constructs and their own biographies and experience, the contributors present predicaments, inequalities and strategies. Power and influence are considered in conjunction with gender, 'race', social class and sexuality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748403004
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/20/1995
Series:	Gender and Society Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Organisational Culture in the Academy; Black Women as 'other' in the Academy; Haystacks in my Mind: How to Stay Sane, Angry and Feminist in the 1990s; Lesbian Realities versus Equal Opportunities in the Academy; Ascending the Tower: Living in the Mind; Transgression: Feminism and Institutionalisation; My Mother's Voice?: On Being 'Uncivilised' in Academia; Measuring the Muse: Creativity, Writing and Career Development; Challenging Racism and Sexism in Academia; Empowering Working Class Women at Academic Conferences; Birthing an Academic Career.