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Duckworth, Vicky; Lord, Janet; Dunne, Linda; Atkins, Liz; Watmore, Sue – Gender and Education, 2016
The experiences of five female lecturers working in higher education in the UK are explored as they engage in the search for a feminised critical space as a refuge from the masculinised culture of performativity in which they feel constrained and devalued. Email exchanges were used as a form of narrative enquiry that provided opportunity and space…
Descriptors: Feminism, Higher Education, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries
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Atkins, Liz; Vicars, Mark – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to draw on concepts of "female masculinity" to interrogate how hegemonic gendering discourses, forms and performances are inscribed in neoliberal narratives of competency in higher education in the Western Hemisphere. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on individual examples, the authors consider…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masculinity, Femininity, Gender Issues