{"product_id":"feminist-responses-to-the-neoliberalization-of-the-university-from-surviving-to-thriving-9781793610393","title":"Feminist Responses to the Neoliberalization of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith intersectional feminist ferocity, this powerful, impassioned collection asks what a university would look like if it actually cared about the marginalized, while it unsparingly displays higher education's race to the bottom by a thousand neoliberal cuts. Foregrounding WOC, LGBTQ+, first-generation, working-class, Jewish, and indigenous voices and experiences, the chapters unflinchingly confront what it means to attempt social justice research and pedagogy amidst literally ceaseless budget \"crises\". Seamlessly weaving the sublimity of our longings for a more just world with a clear-eyed stare at the ridiculous corporate logic that has swamped university functions, this collection is essential reading for students, faculty, administrators, and anybody who cares about higher education. -- Karen Kelsky, Founder and CEO of The Professor Is In\u003cbr\u003eUsing narratives of professional and personal experiences in academic settings, this book illuminates sites of creative resistance within the neoliberal academy. The contributors offer analyses that are simultaneously challenging, disheartening, and inspiring. They ask readers to consider how academic norms can limit inclusivity and broad participation; they also offer strategies for marginalized academics to reform or make a home within academic settings. These narratives show readers the significant costs to marginalized students, staff, and faculty when social purposes of higher education are replaced by market-driven ones. Read optimistically, however, they also point to the cracks in our institutions that might just someday allow light to shine through. -- Rebecca Ropers, University of Minnesota\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One: Lavender Carharts: Queer Work within and outside the Academy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne Balay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: Neoliberalism in Higher Education and its Effects on Marginalized Students\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDejah Carter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: Promoting Feminist Labor in Academe’s Culture of Compliance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eApril Lidinsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: Neutral Student Grievance Processes in White Supremacist Institutions of Higher Education\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFarhana Loonat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five: Planting Seeds of Trans Inclusion: A Conversation with Meghan Buell of TREES, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeghan Buell and Pam Butler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six: Laboring in Line with Our Values: Lessons Learned in the Struggle to Unionize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSonia De La Cruz, Nini Hayes, and Sonalini Sapra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven: Feminist Future Making and Nomadic Subjectivity in the Academy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLauren J. Lacey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eight: Sovereignty as an Indigenous Feminist Intervention\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmanda Griffin Linsenmeyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Nine: There is No Surviving without Thriving \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbby Palko\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Ten: Compadradzco \u0026amp; the Wild Woman: An Argument for the Creative Collective as Radical Support for Women in the Academy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeslie Contreras Schwartz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eleven: Fighting Shanda: A Jewish Mother Academic’s Positionality and Practice at a Catholic Women’s College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJamie Wagman","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042624635223,"sku":"9781793610393","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793610393.jpg?v=1750954908","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/feminist-responses-to-the-neoliberalization-of-the-university-from-surviving-to-thriving-9781793610393","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}