1st Edition

Feminist Academics Creative Agents For Change

Edited By Louise Morley, Val Walsh Copyright 1995
    224 Pages
    by Taylor & Francis

    224 Pages
    by Taylor & Francis

    This text brings together leading feminists who explore questions of feminist interventions in organisations of knowledge production, covering both the structure and culture of academic institutions and the social divisions between women. Feminism is located as a force for change, empowering women to gain a political understanding and providing a methodology for new approaches to teaching, learning, research and writing in the academy. Contributions demonstrate how an analysis of the micropolitics of the academy in terms of power, policies, discourses, pedagogy and interpersonal relationships provides a framework for de- privatising women's experience and influencing change. Using theoretical constructs and their own biographies and experience, the contributors present predicaments, inequalities and strategies. Power and influence are considered in conjunction with gender, 'race', social class and sexuality.

    Introduction; Organisational Culture in the Academy; Black Women as 'other' in the Academy; Haystacks in my Mind: How to Stay Sane, Angry and Feminist in the 1990s; Lesbian Realities versus Equal Opportunities in the Academy; Ascending the Tower: Living in the Mind; Transgression: Feminism and Institutionalisation; My Mother's Voice?: On Being 'Uncivilised' in Academia; Measuring the Muse: Creativity, Writing and Career Development; Challenging Racism and Sexism in Academia; Empowering Working Class Women at Academic Conferences; Birthing an Academic Career.

    Biography

    Louise Morley, Val Walsh