We Only Talk Feminist Here

This book explores what it means to 'only talk feminist here' in the contemporary neoliberal university. How do feminist academics effect change? How are feminist voices sounded, heard, received, silenced, and masked? We Only Talk Feminist Here offers insight into the complexities, contradictions, and possibilities of 'talking feminist'; of writing as speaking, problematising notions of voice and agency, of speaking into the silences and the ways in which we fight for and flee to feminist spaces, and of talking back. This book presents new possibilities for framing 'talking feminist' differently, by exploring what we say, when we say it, how we say it, and what it means when we do any of these things in terms of our multiple and shifting feminist subjectivities. We Only Talk Feminist Here draws upon interviews and conversations with feminist academics in Australia to demonstrate the performative and discursive moves feminist academics make in order to be heard and effectchange to the gendered status quo in Australian higher education.

Explores the role of feminist voice and feminist talk in contemporary university settings Explores the impact of ongoing neo-liberal and profit-driven changes in universities on feminist academics Draws on personal interviews with feminist academics to demonstrate the performative and discursive strategies they use to negotiate the neoliberal university Reveals how feminist academics encounter and create spaces where feminist knowledge and practices are privileged over neoliberal-patriarchal ones

Autorentext
Briony Lipton is a PhD Candidate in the School of Sociology, The Australian National University, Australia. Her current research explores the relationship between academic women, feminism, neoliberalism, university leadership, and gender equality in Australian higher education.

Elizabeth Mackinlay is Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Queensland, Australia. Her current research projects include the politics and pedagogies of Indigenous Australian studies, mentoring Indigenous pre-service teachers, autoethnography, and feminism in higher education.

Klappentext
Drawing upon interviews and conversations with feminist academics as well as the authors' own individual and shared experiences, this book sets out a contemporary account of what it might mean to only talk feminist in contemporary university settings and demonstrates the performative and discursive moves feminist academics make to fight for and flee to feminist spaces in the newly corporatized and commercialized neoliberal university.
Briony Lipton is a PhD Candidate in the School of Sociology, The Australian National University, Australia. Her current research explores the relationship between academic women, feminism, neoliberalism, university leadership, and gender equality in Australian higher education.

Elizabeth Mackinlay is Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Queensland, Australia. Her current research projects include the politics and pedagogies of Indigenous Australian studies, mentoring Indigenous pre-service teachers, autoethnography, and feminism in higher education.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction: Framing Feminist Talk.- Chapter 2. Writing as Speaking.- Chapter 3. Concepts of Voice and Feminism.- Chapter 4. Speaking into the Silence.- Chapter 5. A Final (In)decision: Talking Feminist.