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In this chapter, feminist academics apply political understanding to teaching, research and writing in the academy. They consider knowledge production, career development, voluntarism, isolation, networks and feminist research. Academic feminism is problematised particularly in relation to the linkage of the two terms. For many, academic feminism is a contradiction in terms, an oxymoron, selling out feminism’s commitment to everyday praxis. Yet, on the other hand, academic feminism is also frequently viewed by the establishment as insufficiently academic (Morley and Walsh, 1995).
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Morley, L. (1999). Feminist Academics: Disruption, Development and Disciplines. In: Organising Feminisms. Women’s Studies at York Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333984239_8
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