Feminist Repetitions in Higher Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Stretching Career Stages

   • Maddie Breeze, Yvette Taylor

   Pages 1-27

3. Moving On, Getting Stuck, Going Round and Round: Feminist Educational Journeys

   • Maddie Breeze, Yvette Taylor

   Pages 29-47

4. Care(er)ing: Queer Feminist Career Cares

   • Maddie Breeze, Yvette Taylor

   Pages 49-68

5. Futures and Failures in Feminist Leadership

   • Maddie Breeze, Yvette Taylor

   Pages 69-90

6. Knowing Feminists: The (Mis)use of (Our)selves

   • Maddie Breeze, Yvette Taylor

   Pages 91-111

7. Conclusion: Repeating Feminism, Interrupting Ourselves

   • Maddie Breeze, Yvette Taylor

   Pages 113-125

8. Back Matter

   Pages 127-129

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To do feminism and to be a feminist in higher education is to repeat oneself: to insist on gender equality as more than institutional incorporation and diversity auditing, to insert oneself into and against neoliberal measures, and to argue for nuanced intersectional feminist analysis and action. This book returns to established feminist strategies for taking up academic space, re-thinking how feminists inhabit the university and pushing back against institutional failures. The authors assert the academic career course as fundamental to understanding how feminist educational journeys, collaborations and cares and ways of knowing stretch across and reconstitute academic hierarchies, collectivising and politicising feminist career successes and failures. By prioritising interruptions, the book navigates through feminist methods of researcher reflexivity, autoethnography and collective biography: in doing so, moving from feminist identity to feminist practice and repeating the potential of queer feminist interruptions to the university and ourselves. ​

• Feminism in higher education
• Being a feminist academic
• Auto-ethnography
• Academic Labour
• Career Categories
• Embodiment in higher education
• Emotions in higher education

​“Why must feminism still repeat itself? What must feminism still intervene in? How can we stretch our colleagues, disciplines, universities and ourselves in our feminist interruptions? How do feminists negotiate the ambivalences of working in the non-feminist university? This vital book responds by creatively attending to unequal educational journeys along intersecting paths of privilege and precarity across academic ‘career courses’. Developing lively, innovative methods the authors' remarkably nuanced analysis harnesses and interrogates the transformative potential of feminist theories, methods, and practices. This book makes an extraordinarily valuable contribution across interdisciplinary social science, and stands out for expanding the repertoires available for doing feminist work.”—Professor Mary Lou Rasmussen, The Australian National University, Australia

• School of Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

  Maddie Breeze, Yvette Taylor

Maddie Breeze is Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, UK. She is a feminist sociologist researching educational inequalities, particularly in higher education, widening participation, and academic identities. Her first book Seriousness in Women's Roller Derby was awarded the 2016 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.
 
Yvette Taylor is Professor at the University of Strathclyde, UK. She is a feminist sociologist and researches intersecting social inequalities, often around manifestations of gender, social class and sexuality. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, teaches on the MSc in Applied Gender Studies, and edits the Palgrave Gender and Education Series. 

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