Being an Early Career Feminist Academic : Global Perspectives, Experiences and Challenges Hardback
Edited by Rachel Thwaites, Amy Pressland
Part of the Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education series
Hardback
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This book highlights the experiences of feminist early career researchers and teachers from an international perspective in an increasingly neoliberal academy.
It offers a new angle on a significant and increasingly important discussion on the ethos of higher education and the sector's place in society.
Higher education is fast-changing, increasingly market-driven, and precarious.
In this context entering the academy as an early career academic presents both challenges and opportunities.
Early career academics frequently face the prospect of working on fixed term contracts, with little security and no certain prospect of advancement, while constantly looking for the next role.
Being a feminist academic adds a further layer of complexity: the ethos of the marketising university where students are increasingly viewed as `customers' may sit uneasily with a politics of equality for all.
Feminist values and practice can provide a means of working through the challenges, but may also bring complications.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:298 pages, 2 Tables, color; 2 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 298 p. 3
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:01/12/2016
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- ISBN:9781137543240
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:298 pages, 2 Tables, color; 2 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 298 p. 3
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:01/12/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781137543240
