Synopses & Reviews
This interdisciplinary study of feminism, equity and change in the academy attempts to decode and disentangle gendered message systems and the matrix of power relations in the academy. Based on interviews with forty feminist academics and students in Britain, Sweden and Greece, the book consists of feminist readings of the micro-processes of everyday practices. Change is interrogated in relation to feminist pedagogy, equity, organizational culture, policies and discourses of new right reform, mass expansion and new managerialism.
Synopsis
This study of feminism, equity and change in the academy is based on interviews with 40 feminist academics and students in Britain, Sweden and Greece. The research attempts to decode and disentangle gendered message systems and the matrix of power relations in the academy. It consists of feminist readings of the micro-processes of everyday practices. Change is interrogated in relation to feminist pedagogy, equity, organizational culture, policies and discourses of New Right reform, mass expansion and new managerialism.
Synopsis
This interdisciplinary study of feminism, equity and change in the academy attempts to decode and disentangle gendered message systems and the matrix of power relations in the academy.
About the Author
Louise Morley is Director of Graduate Studies in the Institute of Education at the University of Sussex.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Micropolitics of Academic Feminism * The Challenges of Feminist Research * Equity and Change in Higher Education * Feminism and Equity: Political Partners or Discordant Discourses? * Between the Lines: Gender and Organisation * Power, Pedagogy and Empowerment * Feminist Students: Radicalism, Rights and Resistance * Feminist Academics: Disruption, Development and Disciplines * Concluding Comments: The Dangers of Certainty * Index