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Academic Women in Neoliberal Times

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Authors:
  1. Briony Lipton

    1. School of Education, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia

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  • Examines how key feminist discourses are intertwined in the university itself
  • Uses extensive qualitative data from academic women in Australia to analyse how women manage their careers
  • Illustrates how women generate neoliberal and feminist shifts using a mix experimental methods

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education (GED)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Briony Lipton
    Pages 1-20

  3. Inventive Methods of the Intimate Insider: Possibilities for Feminist Research

    • Briony Lipton
    Pages 21-63

  4. Cruel Measures: Gendered Excellence in Research

    • Briony Lipton
    Pages 65-115

  5. Academics Online: Reflections on Gendered Precarity and Digital (Self) Surveillance

    • Briony Lipton
    Pages 117-164

  6. Academic Conferences: Collegiality and Competition

    • Briony Lipton
    Pages 165-201

  7. Unruly Academic Women: Laughter, Affect, and Resistance

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    Pages 203-236

  8. Conclusion

    • Briony Lipton
    Pages 237-243

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 245-281
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About this book

This book investigates the gendered dimensions of academic life in the contemporary Australian university. It examines key discourses – most notably academic performativity and identity – through a feminist lens, and scrutinises how discourses of neoliberalism and feminism are entangled in the structure, systems, operations and cultures of the university. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with academic women in Australia, the author uses a mix of experimental methods to emphasise the performative and discursive decisions women make with regard to their academic careers. In doing so, this book reveals how women themselves generate neoliberal and feminist shifts, how they manage the contradictions they produce, and how they carve spaces of influence and authority. Moving towards a re-evaluation of existing discourses, this book offers new insights into gender inequality in the Australian university in neoliberal times. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Education, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia

    Briony Lipton

About the author

Briony Lipton is an academic in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her research focuses on intersections of feminism and neoliberalism in education, and she has published widely on these topics. 

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