The marketised university and the politics of motherhood

In this paper, we offer a critique of neoliberal power from the perspective of the gendered, sexualised, raced and classed politics of motherhood in English universities. By using dialogical auto-ethnographic methods to examine our own past experiences as full-time employed mother-academics, we demo...

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Published in:Gender and education 2019-01, Vol.31 (1), p.82-99
Main Authors: Amsler, Sarah, Motta, Sara C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic careers
Academic staff
College Faculty
Colleges & universities
Commercialization
Criticism
Educational Change
Feminism
Feminist criticism
feminist methodologies and theories
Foreign Countries
Gender Issues
Inequality
Motherhood and academia
Mothers
neoliberal subjectification
Neoliberalism
Past experiences
Politics
Politics of Education
Power
Power Structure
Praxis
Productivity
Professional Identity
refusal and transgression
resistance
Resistance (Psychology)
Resistance to Change
Sexualization
Social Theories
time-space logics of neoliberalism
Universities
Women Faculty
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Summary:In this paper, we offer a critique of neoliberal power from the perspective of the gendered, sexualised, raced and classed politics of motherhood in English universities. By using dialogical auto-ethnographic methods to examine our own past experiences as full-time employed mother-academics, we demonstrate how feminist academic praxis can not only help make the gendered workings of neoliberal power more visible, but also enable us to nurture and sustain alternative ways of being and working in, against and outside the university. Far from desiring greater inclusion into a system which enshrines repressive logics of productivity and reproduces gendered subjectivities, inequalities, silences and exclusions, we aim to refuse and transgress it by bringing feminist critiques of knowledge, labour and neoliberalism to bear on how we understand our own experiences of motherhood in the academic world.
ISSN:0954-0253
1360-0516
DOI:10.1080/09540253.2017.1296116