TY - JOUR
T1 - Embodied women at work in neoliberal times and places
AU - Davies, Bronwyn
AU - Browne, Jennifer
AU - Gannon, Susanne
AU - Honan, Eileen
AU - Somerville, Margaret
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - In this article five women explore (female) embodiment in academic work in current workplaces. In a week-long collective biography workshop they produced written memories of themselves in their various workplaces and memories of themselves as children and as students. These memories then became the texts out of which the analysis was generated. The authors examine the constitutive and seductive effects of neoliberal discourses and practices, and in particular, the assembling of academic bodies as particular kinds of working bodies. They use the concept of chiasma, or crossing over, to trouble some aspects of binary thinking about bodies and about the relations between bodies and discourses. They examine the way that we simultaneously resist and appropriate, and are seduced by and appropriated within, neoliberal discourses and practices.
AB - In this article five women explore (female) embodiment in academic work in current workplaces. In a week-long collective biography workshop they produced written memories of themselves in their various workplaces and memories of themselves as children and as students. These memories then became the texts out of which the analysis was generated. The authors examine the constitutive and seductive effects of neoliberal discourses and practices, and in particular, the assembling of academic bodies as particular kinds of working bodies. They use the concept of chiasma, or crossing over, to trouble some aspects of binary thinking about bodies and about the relations between bodies and discourses. They examine the way that we simultaneously resist and appropriate, and are seduced by and appropriated within, neoliberal discourses and practices.
KW - academic achievement
KW - feminist theory
KW - neoliberalism
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/34304
U2 - 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2005.00277.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2005.00277.x
M3 - Article
JO - Gender, Work and Organization
JF - Gender, Work and Organization
ER -