Overview
- Highlights the experiences of early career feminist scholars negotiating the demands of a neoliberal academy
- Draws together a variety of experiences and voices to provide a comprehensive and international picture
- Offers a new angle on the significant and increasingly important discussion regarding the ethos of higher education and the sector's place within society
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education (GED)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Introducing the Early Career Experience
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Affect and Identities: Negotiating Tensions in the Early Career
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Exploring Experience Through Innovative Methodologies
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Work, Networks and Social Capital: Building the Academic Career
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Envisaging Feminist Futures
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“I wish I had read this book earlier in my career. The challenges and pleasures of academia as feminist activity are engagingly discussed in an intellectually rigorous manner. Inspiring!!” (Heather Savigny, Associate Professor in Gender & Politics, Bournemouth University)
“A profound and moving analysis that vividly articulates the challenges, complexities and precariousness of the lives of feminist early career academics in the neoliberal university.” (Elisabeth Kelan, Professor of Leadership, Director Cranfield International Centre for Women Leaders, Cranfield University)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Amy Pressland is International HR Projects Manager for DB Cargo UK working on an international research project called Women in Management. Previously she was Lecturer in Education at the University of East Anglia, UK and has published articles and book chapters on mixed-sex sport in HE, European media representations of gender at major sporting events, the surveillance of sportswomen's bodies in British newspapers, and the media coverage of women's boxing..
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Being an Early Career Feminist Academic
Book Subtitle: Global Perspectives, Experiences and Challenges
Editors: Rachel Thwaites, Amy Pressland
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54325-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71310-3Published: 08 January 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54325-7Published: 23 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2524-6445
Series E-ISSN: 2524-6453
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 298
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Gender and Education, Higher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Sociology of Education