Feminist Responses to the Neoliberalization of the University

From Surviving to Thriving

Abby Palko, Sonalini Sapra, Jamie Wagman

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2020
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978799813
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Feminism & Feminist Theory
• Index: Social Sciences

This book argues that neoliberal discourses prevalent in higher education seek to undermine, commodify, and co-opt the radical, transformative work that many gender and women's studies departments, programs, and centers are doing. The contributors to the collection discuss their responses to these challenges in and out of the classrooms, from mentorship and activism to active allyship and experimental pedagogies. They aim to inspire a new wave of feminist consciousness raising that will encourage transformative ways of engaging with the university and serve as doorways to new understandings of productivity and creativity.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Lavender Carhartts
• 2 Neoliberalism in Higher Education and Its Effects on Marginalized Students
• 3 Promoting Feminist Labor in Academe’s Culture of Compliance
• 4 “Neutral” Student Grievance Processes in White Supremacist Institutions of Higher Education
• 5 Planting Seeds of Trans Inclusion
• 6 Laboring in Line with Our Values
• 7 Feminist Future Making and Nomadic Subjectivity in the Academy
• 8 Sovereignty as an Indigenous Feminist Intervention
• 9 There Is No Surviving without Thriving
• 10 Compadrazgo and the Wild Woman
• 11 Fighting Shanda
• Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors