Feminist scholars working around the neoliberal university

Acker, Sandra; Wagner, Anne

doi:10.1080/09540253.2017.1296117

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“…The intensified focus on performance, fiscal efficiencies, quality assurance, audit and regulation, as well as executive prerogative [23] has shifted attention to leaders and leadership as the key drivers of change and innovation. However, subtle yet conscious demands for ways of 'doing leadership' that align with new regimes of management and governance sit uncomfortably with women and are counter to women's preferred ways of working [24]. Furthermore, while there are implicit assumptions about what it means to be a male leader, similar overt and explicit norms about how to 'look' and 'act' as a woman leader do not exist.…”

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“…All of the women had higher degrees and/or professional qualifications; all had worked in more than one institution across their careers, and six of the women had worked in different countries. The majority held the title of professor (24), and three were associate professors in senior portfolios. Furthermore, 12 of the women were known in their fields outside of the university as they sat on professional committees, research councils, school governing councils, or community boards.…”

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Looking Good and Being Good: Women Leaders in Australian Universities

Fitzgerald

2018

Education Sciences

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Abstract:In this article, I argue that women in senior leadership positions in universities continue to face a number of tensions and ambiguities in their everyday working lives. Drawing on the metaphors of 'looking good' and 'being good', I highlight the gendered assumptions that senior women encounter. As senior leaders, women are simultaneously required to negotiate an inherently masculine culture yet at the same time are expected to exercise a level of femininity. Their physical presence, appearance, clothing, gestures, and behaviours are central to the bodily exercise of leadership. As the data presented illustrate, women's leadership bodies and bodily performances reflect gendered institutional norms and assumptions about how leaders should look and act.

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Section: Looking Goodmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Methodsologymentioning

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Looking Good and Being Good: Women Leaders in Australian Universities

Fitzgerald

2018

Education Sciences

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“…Acker and Wagner (2017: 11) found that feminist research leaders were 'determin[ed] to support and mentor junior colleagues', and saw mentorship as an 'integral' feminist commitment. Concurrently, mentoring can go unrecognised and unrewarded by universities, just as the work of forming teams and securing positions for junior colleges is 'barely credited' (Acker and Wagner 2017). The work of supporting early career colleagues can also be structurally limited, as when established feminist academics' efforts to secure funding often result in casualised contracts for early career colleagues (Acker and Wagner 2017).…”

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“…Across national contexts, making and maintaining space for feminists and feminisms in higher education takes a great deal of work Armenti 2004, Acker andWagner 2017). This includes the -often institutionally unrecognised and unrewarded -work of collaboration.…”

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Feminist collaborations in higher education: stretched across career stages

Breeze

Taylor²

2018

Gender and Education

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Categorical career stages offer an institutional framework through which mobilities can be claimed and contested by feminists in academia. Inhabiting career stages uncritically can serve to reproduce neoliberal academic structures that feminists may seek to resist. Collaboration across career stages is a significant empirical case for understanding how feminists occupy academic space. We use auto-ethnographic methods to read career stages and feminist collaboration through each other, analysing the authors' cross-career collaborations and mentoring relationship in a Scottish University. We ask how feminist collaboration can claim and disrupt the neoliberal temporal logics of competitively achieving individuals on upward career trajectories, where academic arrival can feel permanently deferred. As such we argue for more pluralised and fragmented understandings of 'career stages', which as fixed categories work to position academics as either precarious or privileged, and for a messier imaginary of academic work and careers.

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“…Previous research has shown that recent changes to academic work (Chandler et al 2002;Czarniawska & Genell 2002;Deem et al 2007;Salter & Tapper 2000) have impacted gender equity within academia (Acker & Wagner 2017;Davies 2006;Harris et al 2019;Morley 2011). For example, the higher demands of administrative tasks seem to affect women disproportionately (Brooks & MacKinnon 2001;Davies 2006;Leonard 2001;Mama 2003;Wilson et al 2010).…”

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The Invisible Civil Servant: How Female Senior Lecturers in Sweden Narrate Work

Wall

2020

NJWLS

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This article examines the public administration role of university personnel who are state employees by analyzing female senior lecturers’ stories on working in Swedish universities, especially regarding how their role as a civil servant is narrated as part of their work. A performative narrative approach was used to analyze the in-depth interviews of four female senior lecturers at Swedish universities. Through the analysis, three shared storylines emerged: I don’t think of myself as a civil servant; You have to keep a certain level and It’s a solitary duty.The study revealed how the senior lecturer position was narrated by the interviewees in terms of duties to students and the public and the lack of efficient social support and knowledge.The findings are discussed as gendered expressions of working as a female senior lecturer in Sweden.

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Feminist scholars working around the neoliberal university

Cited by 78 publications

References 52 publications

Looking Good and Being Good: Women Leaders in Australian Universities

Looking Good and Being Good: Women Leaders in Australian Universities

Feminist collaborations in higher education: stretched across career stages

The Invisible Civil Servant: How Female Senior Lecturers in Sweden Narrate Work

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