Being an Early Career Feminist Academic : Global Perspectives, Experiences and Challenges / edited by Rachel Thwaites, Amy Pressland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thwaites, Rachel, Editor.

Pressland, Amy, Editor.

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education, 2524-6453

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex.

Education, Higher.

School management and organization.

Educational sociology.

Gender Studies.

Higher Education.

Organization and Leadership.

Sociology of Education.

Local Subjects:

Gender Studies.

Higher Education.

Organization and Leadership.

Sociology of Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVII, 298 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

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 thechallenges, but may also bring complications.

Contents:

Introduction: Being an Early Career Feminist Academic in a Changing Academy; Rachel Thwaites and Amy Pressland

PART I: INTRODUCING THE EARLY CAREER EXPERIENCE

Chapter 1. A Precarious Passion: Gendered and Age-Based Insecurity among Aspiring Academics in Australia; Lara McKenzie

Chapter 2. Navigating Gendered Expectations at the Margins of Feminism and Criminology; Olga Marques

PART II: AFFECT AND IDENTITIES: NEGOTIATING TENSIONS IN THE EARLY CAREER

Chapter 3. Academic, Woman, Mother: Negotiating Multiple Subjectivities during Early Career; Agnes Bosanquet

Chapter 4. Room for Confidence: Early Career Feminists in the English Department; Helena Goodwyn and Emily Jane Hogg

Chapter 5. "Are you One of Us, or One of Them?" An Autoethnography of a 'Hybrid' Feminist Researcher Bridging Two Worlds; Sophie Alkhaled

PART III: EXPLORING EXPERIENCES THROUGH INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGIES

Chapter 6. Exposing the 'Hidden Injuries' of Feminist Early Career Researchers: An Experiential Think Piece about Maintaining Feminist Identities; Anna Tarrant and Emily Cooper

Chapter 7. Reflecting Realities and Creating Utopias: early Career Feminists (un)Doing International Relations in Finland; Marjaana Jauhola and Saara Särmä

PART IV: WORK, NETWORKS AND SOCIAL CAPITAL: BUILDING THE ACADEMIC CAREER

Chapter 8. Challenges to Feminist Solidarity in the Era of New Public Management; Klara Regnö

Chapter 9. Inequality in Academia: The Way Social Connections Work; Irina Gewinner

Chapter 10. Feminist Work in Academia and Beyond; Órla Murray, Muireann Crowley, and Lena Wånggren

PART V: ENVISAGING FEMINIST FUTURES

Chapter 11. On Becoming 'Bad Subjects': Teaching to Transgress in Neoliberal education; Katherine Natanel

Chapter 12. Embracing Vulnerability?: Reflection on My Academic Journey as a Japanese Feminist Early Career Research Abroad; Misato Matsuoka

Chapter 13. "I'm an Early Career Feminist Academic: Get Me Out of Here?" Encountering and Resisting the Neoliberal Academy; The Res-Sisters

Conclusion: Final Thoughts and Future Directions; Rachel Thwaites and Amy Pressland.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9781137543257

1137543256