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Disciplining academic women: gender restructuring and the labour of research in Australian universities
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).
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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Through a glass darkly: the social sciences look at the neoliberal universityChapter number
11Pagination
179 - 194Publisher
ANU PressPlace of publication
Canberra, AustraliaISBN-13
9781925022131Language
engPublication classification
B1.1 Book chapterCopyright notice
2014, ANU PressExtent
15Editor/Contributor(s)
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