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Embodied women at work in neoliberal times and places

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posted on 2005-07-01, 00:00 authored by B Davies, J Browne, S Gannon, Eileen Honan, M Somerville
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.

History

Journal

Gender, work and organization

Volume

12

Issue

4

Pagination

343 - 362

Publisher

Wiley - Blackwell

Location

Oxford, England

ISSN

0968-6673

eISSN

1468-0432

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2005, Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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