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The Micropolitics of the Academy

其他書名	Feminism, Equity and Change
出版	King's College London, 1997
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=h_i4MwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This study of feminism, equity and change in the academy is based on interviews with 40 informants 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 quotidian practices, and analysis of the complexities of location within an oppositional discourse. The study draws on theoretical concepts from sociology of education, feminist theory, policy studies, organization studies and postmodernism. -- Change is interrogated in relation to policies and discourses of New Right reform, mass expansion, new managerialism and equity, with exploration of the interconnection of demographic changes, consumerism and equality of opportunity. Discontinuities between feminism and equality politics are scrutinised from the differing macropolitical frameworks of Sweden, Britain and Greece. -- Feminist academics reflect on the gendered basis of knowledge production, career development, voluntarism, isolation, networks, pedagogy, interdisciplinarity, feminist research and 'sex role spillover'. Academic feminism is problematised in relation to activism and praxis. Feminist students critically evaluate Women's Studies courses and consider whether the academy has 'othered' or accommodated aspects of their identity forged in marginality, such as age, social class, sexuality, disability, ethnicity.