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Feeling Academic in the Neoliberal University

Feminist Flights, Fights and Failures

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Editors:
  1. Yvette Taylor

    1. School of Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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  2. Kinneret Lahad

    1. Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  • Highlights the difficulties of holding a position within academia and how these might differ across the career span
  • Draws together an international and interdisciplinary range of contributions to present a variety of experiences
  • Asks whether feminist spaces can offer freedom or flight from the corporatized and commercialised neoliberal university

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

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Feeling Academic in the Neoliberal University: Feminist Flights, Fights, and Failures

    • Yvette Taylor, Kinneret Lahad
    Pages 1-15

  3. Failure to Launch? Feminist Endeavors as a Partial Academic

    • Heather Shipley
    Pages 17-32

  4. Feminist Conference Time: Aiming (Not) to Have Been There

    • Emily F. Henderson
    Pages 33-60

  5. Navigating the Emotional Landscapes of Academia: Queer Encounters

    • Yvette Taylor
    Pages 61-85

  6. China with ‘Foreign Talent’ Characteristics: A ‘Guerrilla’ Autoethnography of Performing ‘Foreign Talentness’ in a Chinese University

    • Lauren Ila Misiaszek
    Pages 87-114

  7. Writing Yourself In? The Price of Playing the (Feminist) Game in the Neoliberal University

    • Sarah Burton
    Pages 115-136

  8. Feelings of Change: Alternative Feminist Professional Trajectories

    • C. Laura Lovin
    Pages 137-161

  9. Feel the Fear and Killjoy Anyway: Being a Challenging Feminist Presence in Precarious Academia

    • Órla Meadhbh Murray
    Pages 163-189

  10. Imposter Syndrome as a Public Feeling

    • Maddie Breeze
    Pages 191-219

  11. Gender, Time, and ‘Waiting’ in Everyday Academic Life

    • Barbara Read, Lisa Bradley
    Pages 221-242

  12. A Long Goodbye to the ‘Good Girl’: An Auto-ethnographic Account

    • Pat Thomson
    Pages 243-260

  13. On the Thresholds of Legitimacy: A Collaborative Exploration of Being and Becoming Academic

    • Susanne Gannon, Sarah Powell, Clare Power
    Pages 261-280

  14. Crying on Campus

    • Daphna Hacker
    Pages 281-299

  15. When Love Becomes Self-Abuse: Gendered Perspectives on Unpaid Labor in Academia

    • Francesca Coin
    Pages 301-320

  16. Teaching Gender in a Postfeminist Management Classroom

    • Nick Rumens
    Pages 321-343

  17. Digital Scholars: A Feeling for the Academic Game

    • Cristina Costa
    Pages 345-368
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About this book

This book offers a contemporary account of what it means to inhabit academia as a privilege, risk, entitlement or a failure. Drawing on international perspectives from a range of academic disciplines, it asks whether feminist spaces can offer freedom or flight from the corporatized and commercialized neoliberal university. How are feminist voices felt, heard, received, silenced, and masked? What is it to be a feminist academic in the neoliberal university? How are expectations, entitlements and burdens felt in inhabiting feminist positions and what of 'bad feeling' or 'unhappiness' amongst feminists? The volume consider these issues from across the career course, including from 'early career' and senior established scholars, as these diverse categories are themselves entangled in academic structures, sentiments and subjectivities; they are solidified in, for example, entry and promotion schemes as well as funding calls, and they ask us to identify in particular stages of 'being' or 'becoming' academic, while arguably denying the possibility of ever arriving. It will be essential reading for students and researchers in the areas of Education, Sociology, and Gender Studies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Yvette Taylor

  • Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Kinneret Lahad

About the editors

Yvette Taylor is Professor of Education at the University of Strathclyde, UK, and has held a Fulbright Scholarship at Rutgers University, USA, in 2010-2011, as well as a British Academy mid-career fellowship 'Critical Terrain: Dividing Lines and Lives' in 2013-2014.


Kinneret Lahad is a senior lecturer at the NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, USA, Venice International University and Ca'Foscari University, Italy, and an honorary research fellow at Manchester University, UK.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Feeling Academic in the Neoliberal University

  • Book Subtitle: Feminist Flights, Fights and Failures

  • Editors: Yvette Taylor, Kinneret Lahad

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64224-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64223-9Published: 08 February 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87751-8Published: 04 June 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64224-6Published: 09 February 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2524-6445

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-6453

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 368

  • Topics: Gender and Education, Gender Studies, Sociology of Education, Higher Education, Sociology of Education

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