Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship

Feminist scholarship is sometimes dismissed as not quite ‘proper’ knowledge – it’s too political or subjective, many argue. But what are the boundaries of ‘proper’ knowledge? Who defines them, and how are they changing? How do feminists negotiate them? And how does this boundary-work affect women’s...

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description Feminist scholarship is sometimes dismissed as not quite ‘proper’ knowledge – it’s too political or subjective, many argue. But what are the boundaries of ‘proper’ knowledge? Who defines them, and how are they changing? How do feminists negotiate them? And how does this boundary-work affect women’s and gender studies, and its scholars’ and students’ lives? These are the questions tackled by this ground-breaking ethnography of academia inspired by feminist epistemology, Foucault, and science and technology studies. Drawing on data collected over a decade in Portugal and the UK, US and Scandinavia, this title explores different spaces of academic work and sociability, considering both official discourse and ‘corridor talk’. It links epistemic negotiations to the shifting political economy of academic labour, and situates the smallest (but fiercest) departmental negotiations within global relations of unequal academic exchange. Through these links, this timely volume also raises urgent questions about the current state and status of gender studies and the mood of contemporary academia. Indeed, its sobering, yet uplifting, discussion of that mood offers fresh insight into what it means to produce feminist work within neoliberal cultures of academic performativity, demanding increasing productivity. As the first book to analyse how academics talk (publicly or in off-the-record humour) about feminist scholarship, Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship is essential reading for scholars and students in gender studies, LGBTQ studies, post-colonial studies, STS, sociology and education. Winner of the FWSA 2018 Book Prize competition The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315692623, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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But what are the boundaries of ‘proper’ knowledge? Who defines them, and how are they changing? How do feminists negotiate them? And how does this boundary-work affect women’s and gender studies, and its scholars’ and students’ lives? These are the questions tackled by this ground-breaking ethnography of academia inspired by feminist epistemology, Foucault, and science and technology studies. Drawing on data collected over a decade in Portugal and the UK, US and Scandinavia, this title explores different spaces of academic work and sociability, considering both official discourse and ‘corridor talk’. It links epistemic negotiations to the shifting political economy of academic labour, and situates the smallest (but fiercest) departmental negotiations within global relations of unequal academic exchange. Through these links, this timely volume also raises urgent questions about the current state and status of gender studies and the mood of contemporary academia. Indeed, its sobering, yet uplifting, discussion of that mood offers fresh insight into what it means to produce feminist work within neoliberal cultures of academic performativity, demanding increasing productivity. As the first book to analyse how academics talk (publicly or in off-the-record humour) about feminist scholarship, Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship is essential reading for scholars and students in gender studies, LGBTQ studies, post-colonial studies, STS, sociology and education. Winner of the FWSA 2018 Book Prize competition The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315692623, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. 2025-05-29T05:27:56Z 2025-05-29T05:27:56Z 2025-05-28T08:25:02Z 2017 book ONIX_20250528T101339_9781317433682_82 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102951 9781317433682 9781317433675 9781317433668 9781315692623 9780367233761 9781138911499 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160748 eng Transformations open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102951/1/9781317433682.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102951/1/9781317433682.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315692623 10.4324/9781315692623 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781317433682 9781317433675 9781317433668 9781315692623 9780367233761 9781138911499 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books Routledge 246 Oxford [...] open access
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Somatic Catastrophe
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Epistemic Efficacy
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EU’s Lisbon Treaty
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Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship
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topic WGFS Scholars
An Ethnography of Academia
Epistemic Status
Maria do Mar Pereira
Epistemic Discrimination
Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship
Epistemic Injustice
STS
Epistemic Climate
academia
Performative University
epistemology
Portuguese Academia
ethnography
WGFS Work
feminism
Somatic Catastrophe
higher education
Corridor Talk
knowledge
UK Institution
power
Epistemic Efficacy
science
Contemporary Societies
science and technology studies
EU’s Lisbon Treaty
universities
Epistemic Threshold
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topic_facet WGFS Scholars
An Ethnography of Academia
Epistemic Status
Maria do Mar Pereira
Epistemic Discrimination
Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship
Epistemic Injustice
STS
Epistemic Climate
academia
Performative University
epistemology
Portuguese Academia
ethnography
WGFS Work
feminism
Somatic Catastrophe
higher education
Corridor Talk
knowledge
UK Institution
power
Epistemic Efficacy
science
Contemporary Societies
science and technology studies
EU’s Lisbon Treaty
universities
Epistemic Threshold
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