Genders at Work: Gender as a Geography of Power in the Academy
Carruthers Thomas, Kate (2019) Genders at Work: Gender as a Geography of Power in the Academy. In: Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 187-206. ISBN 9783030048518
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Abstract
This chapter discusses contemporary research investigating how gender operates as a geography of power in the contemporary academy, particularly in relation to notions of ‘career’. Massey’s understanding of space as ‘a simultaneity of stories-so-far and places as collections of those stories’ (2005, p.11) shapes the research questions and a methodology of ‘spatial storytelling’ which foregrounds relationships between space and power in considering lived experiences of work and career. The chapter presents a selection of participants’ ‘stories-so-far’ which illustrate the complexity and dimensionality of lived, gendered experiences in the workplace and provide a basis for reflection on the opportunities these afford to resist sexism in the academy.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Date: | 5 February 2019 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | gender; career; higher education; space; power; geography; geography of power, gender mapping, spatial storytelling, Athena Swan |
| Subjects: | L300 Sociology L700 Human and Social Geography X300 Academic studies in Education |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences > Dept. Criminology and Sociology REF UoA Output Collections > REF2021 UoA21: Sociology |
| Depositing User: | Kate Thomas |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2018 09:48 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Feb 2021 10:45 |
| URI: | http://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/6408 |
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