Lexington Books
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9
978-1-7936-1037-9 • Hardback • March 2020 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-7936-1039-3 • Paperback • June 2021 • $44.99 • (£35.00)
978-1-7936-1038-6 • eBook • March 2020 • $42.50 • (£35.00)
Abby Palko is director of the Maxine Platzer Lynn Women's Center at the University of Virginia.
Sonalini Sapra is assistant director of the Center for Principled Problem Solving and Excellence in Teaching at Guilford College and adjunct assistant professor of political science.
Jamie Wagman is associate professor and chair of gender and women’s studies and history at Saint Mary’s College.
Chapter One: Lavender Carharts: Queer Work within and outside the Academy
Anne Balay
Chapter Two: Neoliberalism in Higher Education and its Effects on Marginalized Students
Dejah Carter
Chapter Three: Promoting Feminist Labor in Academe’s Culture of Compliance
April Lidinsky
Chapter Four: Neutral Student Grievance Processes in White Supremacist Institutions of Higher Education
Farhana Loonat
Chapter Five: Planting Seeds of Trans Inclusion: A Conversation with Meghan Buell of TREES, Inc.
Meghan Buell and Pam Butler
Chapter Six: Laboring in Line with Our Values: Lessons Learned in the Struggle to Unionize
Sonia De La Cruz, Nini Hayes, and Sonalini Sapra
Chapter Seven: Feminist Future Making and Nomadic Subjectivity in the Academy
Lauren J. Lacey
Chapter Eight: Sovereignty as an Indigenous Feminist Intervention
Amanda Griffin Linsenmeyer
Chapter Nine: There is No Surviving without Thriving
Abby Palko
Chapter Ten: Compadradzco & the Wild Woman: An Argument for the Creative Collective as Radical Support for Women in the Academy
Leslie Contreras Schwartz
Chapter Eleven: Fighting Shanda: A Jewish Mother Academic’s Positionality and Practice at a Catholic Women’s College
Jamie Wagman
With intersectional feminist ferocity, this powerful, impassioned collection asks what a university would look like if it actually cared about the marginalized, while it unsparingly displays higher education's race to the bottom by a thousand neoliberal cuts. Foregrounding WOC, LGBTQ+, first-generation, working-class, Jewish, and indigenous voices and experiences, the chapters unflinchingly confront what it means to attempt social justice research and pedagogy amidst literally ceaseless budget "crises". Seamlessly weaving the sublimity of our longings for a more just world with a clear-eyed stare at the ridiculous corporate logic that has swamped university functions, this collection is essential reading for students, faculty, administrators, and anybody who cares about higher education.
— Karen Kelsky, Founder and CEO of The Professor Is In
Using narratives of professional and personal experiences in academic settings, this book illuminates sites of creative resistance within the neoliberal academy. The contributors offer analyses that are simultaneously challenging, disheartening, and inspiring. They ask readers to consider how academic norms can limit inclusivity and broad participation; they also offer strategies for marginalized academics to reform or make a home within academic settings. These narratives show readers the significant costs to marginalized students, staff, and faculty when social purposes of higher education are replaced by market-driven ones. Read optimistically, however, they also point to the cracks in our institutions that might just someday allow light to shine through.
— Rebecca Ropers, University of Minnesota