Rogers, Chrissie (2017). "I’m complicit and I’m ambivalent and that’s crazy":care-less spaces for women in the academy. Women's Studies International Forum, 61 , pp. 115-122.
Abstract
This paper is about three working class women academics in their 40s, who are at different phases in their career. I take a reflexive, feminist, (Reay 2000, 2004, Ribbens and Edwards 1998) life story approach (Plummer, 2001) in order to understand their particular narratives about identity, complicity, relationships and discomfort within the academy, and then how they inhabit care-less spaces. However unique their narratives, I am able to explore an aspect of higher education – women and their working relationships – through a lens of care-less spaces, and argue that care-less-ness in the academy, can create and reproduce animosity and collusion. Notably, this is damaging for intellectual pursuits, knowledge production and markedly, the identity of woman academics. In introducing this work, I first contextualise women in the academy and define the term care-less spaces, then move onto discuss feminist methods. I then explore and critique in some detail, the substantive findings under the headings of ‘complicity and ‘faking’ it’ and ‘publishing and collaboration’. The final section concludes the paper by drawing on Herring’s (2013) legal premise, in the context of care ethics, as a way to interrogate particular care-less spaces within higher education.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2016.07.002 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Sociology and Policy College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Centre for Critical Inquiry into Society and Culture (CCISC) |
Additional Information: | © 2016, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Education,Development,Sociology and Political Science,Law |
Publication ISSN: | 1879-243X |
Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2024 17:40 |
Date Deposited: | 23 Sep 2016 07:11 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2017-03-01 |
Published Online Date: | 2016-08-10 |
Accepted Date: | 2016-07-21 |
Submitted Date: | 2015-10-30 |
Authors: |
Rogers, Chrissie
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