Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship

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Power, Knowledge and Feminist ScholarshipAn Ethnography of Academia\nAuthor(s): Maria do Mar Pereira\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138911499, 978-1138911499\nSynopsis\nFeminist scholarship is sometimes dismissed as not quite proper knowledge its too political or subjective, many argue. But what are the boundaries of proper knowledge? Who defines them, and how are they changing? How do feminists negotiate them? And how does this boundary-work affect womens and gender studies, and its scholars and students lives?\n\nThese are the questions tackled by this ground-breaking ethnography of academia inspired by feminist epistemology, Foucault, and science and technology studies. Drawing on data collected over a decade in Portugal and the UK, US and Scandinavia, this title explores different spaces of academic work and sociability, considering both official discourse and corridor talk. It links epistemic negotiations.