Women, 'Failure' and Academia

This open access book examines failures in contemporary academia, and especially the intersections between gender and academic failure. It argues that academic failure is political, and that seemingly personal failures to achieve a standard or expected academic career (tenure, funding, publications,...

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description This open access book examines failures in contemporary academia, and especially the intersections between gender and academic failure. It argues that academic failure is political, and that seemingly personal failures to achieve a standard or expected academic career (tenure, funding, publications, etc.) should be understood in the context of institutional failures and systemic inequalities. Through theoretical discussions and/or personal reflections on their individual experiences of failure, contributors to the volume address how academic failure can illuminate, and sometimes subvert, the institutional barriers often faced by women and women-identifying scholars in the contemporary university. The collection is interdisciplinary, intersectional and international and covers topics such as Covid-19, precarity and job hunting, ethnic diversity, accounts of incomplete research, motherhood and disability within the academy. Contributors include established and emerging scholars in Australia, New Zealand, Spain, the UK and the USA. Conceived as scholarly activism, Women, 'Failure' and Academia aims to interrogate the future of universities and challenge perceptions of failure, especially with regard to women and women-identifying academics. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1777512026-06-22T05:04:35Z Women, 'Failure' and Academia Cano, Marina García-Periago, Rosa Gender Academic failure Covid-19 Precarity and job hunting Ethnic diversity Accounts of incomplete research Motherhood thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls::JBSF11 Feminism and feminist theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy This open access book examines failures in contemporary academia, and especially the intersections between gender and academic failure. It argues that academic failure is political, and that seemingly personal failures to achieve a standard or expected academic career (tenure, funding, publications, etc.) should be understood in the context of institutional failures and systemic inequalities. Through theoretical discussions and/or personal reflections on their individual experiences of failure, contributors to the volume address how academic failure can illuminate, and sometimes subvert, the institutional barriers often faced by women and women-identifying scholars in the contemporary university. The collection is interdisciplinary, intersectional and international and covers topics such as Covid-19, precarity and job hunting, ethnic diversity, accounts of incomplete research, motherhood and disability within the academy. Contributors include established and emerging scholars in Australia, New Zealand, Spain, the UK and the USA. Conceived as scholarly activism, Women, 'Failure' and Academia aims to interrogate the future of universities and challenge perceptions of failure, especially with regard to women and women-identifying academics. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective. 2026-06-22T05:04:33Z 2026-06-22T05:04:33Z 2026-06-21T09:14:26Z 2026 book book ONIX_20260621T103019_9781350528673_42 https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350528697?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/114168 9781350528673 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177751 eng Bloomsbury Gender and Education open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/114168/1/9781350528673.pdf Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Bloomsbury Academic b7fec79e-c133-4cb3-9544-88060a4d4e06 9781350528673 Bloomsbury Academic 264 London open access
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Academic failure
Covid-19
Precarity and job hunting
Ethnic diversity
Accounts of incomplete research
Motherhood
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls::JBSF11 Feminism and feminist theory
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy
Women, 'Failure' and Academia
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title_full Women, 'Failure' and Academia
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title_short Women, 'Failure' and Academia
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topic Gender
Academic failure
Covid-19
Precarity and job hunting
Ethnic diversity
Accounts of incomplete research
Motherhood
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary education
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls::JBSF11 Feminism and feminist theory
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy
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Academic failure
Covid-19
Precarity and job hunting
Ethnic diversity
Accounts of incomplete research
Motherhood
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls::JBSF11 Feminism and feminist theory
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy
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