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Disciplining academic women: gender restructuring and the labour of research in Australian universities

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posted on 2014-11-01, 00:00 authored by Jillian BlackmoreJillian Blackmore
This chapter examines the ‘gendered nature of the social organisation of research
and scientific knowledge production’ and in particular the gendered nature of
the corporatisation of higher education (Knorr-Cetina 1999, 9). It argues that the
conditions of labour of the entrepreneurial university and underlying market-
oriented instrumentalism has changed the nature of the relationship of higher
education with the public, with the individual student and the academic, in
ways that are gendered. ‘Markets do not make social distinctions disappear,
they regulate interaction between institutions e.g. families and education, and
“instrumentalist” status distinctions, bending pre-existing cultural value to
capitalist purposes’ (Fraser and Honneth 1998, 58). The dominant neoliberal
policy ‘doxa’, with its economistic view of higher education in relation to the
knowledge economy, is an ideology which shapes a range of constantly changing
discursive and material practices (Epstein et al. 2008). This is ‘not so much a
“new” form of liberal government, but rather a hybrid or intensified form of it’
that works through and on subjectivities that are racialised, gendered, classed
and sexualised (Bansel et al. 2008, 673).

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Title of book

Through a glass darkly: the social sciences look at the neoliberal university

Chapter number

11

Pagination

179 - 194

Publisher

ANU Press

Place of publication

Canberra, Australia

ISBN-13

9781925022131

Language

eng

Publication classification

B1.1 Book chapter

Copyright notice

2014, ANU Press

Extent

15

Editor/Contributor(s)

M Thornton

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