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Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship : An Ethnography of Academia / Maria do Mar Pereira.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pereira, Maria do Mar, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 pages)
- Other Title:
- Knowledge Unlatched.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, UK : Routledge, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Feminist scholarship is sometimes dismissed as not quite 'proper' knowledge - it's too political or subjective, many argue. But what are the boundaries of 'proper' knowledge? Who defines them, and how are they changing? How do feminists negotiate them? And how does this boundary-work affect women's and gender studies, and its scholars' and students' lives? These are the questions tackled by this ground-breaking ethnography of academia inspired by feminist epistemology, Foucault, and science and technology studies. Drawing on data collected over a decade in Portugal and the UK, US and Scandinavia, this title explores different spaces of academic work and sociability, considering both official discourse and 'corridor talk'. It links epistemic negotiations to the shifting political economy of academic labour, and situates the smallest (but fiercest) departmental negotiations within global relations of unequal academic exchange.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books
- BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 102666
- ISBN:
- 9781138911499
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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