Embodied women at work in neoliberal times and places

Bronwyn Davies, Jennifer Browne, Susanne Gannon, Eileen Honan, Margaret Somerville

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    Abstract

    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.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalGender, Work and Organization
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2005

    Keywords

    • academic achievement
    • feminist theory
    • neoliberalism

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