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Title Being an early career feminist academic : global perspectives, experiences and challenges / Rachel Thwaites, Amy Pressland, editors
Published London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Palgrave studies in gender and education
Palgrave studies in gender and education.
Contents Being an early career feminist academic in a changing academy / Rachel Thwaites and Amy Pressland-- A precarious passion : gendered and age-based insecurity among aspiring academics in Australia / Lara McKenzie -- Navigating gendered expectations at the margins of feminism and criminology / Olga Marques -- Academic, woman, mother : negotiating multiple subjectivities during early career / Agnes Bosanquet -- Room for confidence : early career feminists in the English department / Helena Goodwyn and Emily Jane Hogg -- "Are you one of us, or one of them?" : an autoethnography of a "hybrid" feminist researcher bridging two worlds / Sophie Alkhaled -- Exposing the "hidden injuries" of feminist early career researchers : an experiential think piece about maintaining feminist identities / Anna Tarrant and Emily Cooper -- Reflecting realities and creating utopias : early career feminists (un)doing international relations in Finland / Marjaana Jauhola and Saara Särmä -- Challenges to feminist solidarity in the era of new public management / Klara Regnö -- Inequality in academia : the way social connections work / Irina Gewinner -- Feminist work in academia and beyond / Órla Meadhbh Murray, Muireann Crowley, and Lena Wånggren -- On becoming "bad subjects" : teaching to transgress in neoliberal education / Katherine Natanel -- Embracing vulnerability : a reflection on my academic journey as a Japanese early career feminist academic abroad / Misato Matsuoka -- "I'm an early career feminist academic : get me out of here?" : encountering and resisting the neoliberal academy
Summary This book highlights the experiences of feminist early career researchers and teachers from an international perspective in an increasingly neoliberal academy. It offers a new angle on a significant and increasingly important discussion on the ethos of higher education and the sector's place in society. Higher education is fast-changing, increasingly market-driven, and precarious. In this context entering the academy as an early career academic presents both challenges and opportunities. Early career academics frequently face the prospect of working on fixed term contracts, with little security and no certain prospect of advancement, while constantly looking for the next role. Being a feminist academic adds a further layer of complexity: the ethos of the marketising university where students are increasingly viewed as 'customers' may sit uneasily with a politics of equality for all. Feminist values and practice can provide a means of working through the challenges, but may also bring complications
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
Subject Women college teachers.
Feminism and higher education.
Education, Higher.
higher education.
Higher & further education, tertiary education.
Organization & management of education.
Sociology.
Education.
EDUCATION -- Essays.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Reference.
Feminism and education
Women college teachers
Laufbahn
Wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs
Feminismus
Form Electronic book
Author Thwaites, Rachel, editor
Pressland, Amy, editor
ISBN 9781137543257
1137543256