Diversity in times of austerity: documenting resistance in the academy

Authors

Tamara Leech, Montclair State UniversityFollow
David Moscowitz, College of Charleston
Terri Jett, Butler University
Terri Carney, Butler UniversityFollow
Ann Savage, Butler University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 5-2-2014

Journal / Book Title

Journal of Gender Studies

Abstract

What happens to feminism in the university is parallel to what happens to feminism in other venues under economic restructuring: while the impoverished nation is forced to cut social services and thereby send women back to the hierarchy of the family, the academy likewise reduces its footprint in interdisciplinary structures and contains academic feminists back to the hierarchy of departments and disciplines. When the family and the department become powerful arbiters of cultural values, women and feminist academics by and large suffer: they either accept a diminished role or are pushed to compete in a system they recognize as antithetical to the foundational values of feminist priorities of social justice. Collaborative work to nurture diversity and interdisciplinarity does not register as individual accomplishment. This paper considers the necessity of this type of academic work to further the vision of a society committed to the collective values espoused by feminism and other areas in social justice.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2014.913976

MSU Digital Commons Citation

Leech, Tamara; Moscowitz, David; Jett, Terri; Carney, Terri; and Savage, Ann, "Diversity in times of austerity: documenting resistance in the academy" (2014). Department of Public Health Scholarship and Creative Works. 80.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/public-health-facpubs/80

Published Citation

Moscowitz, David, Terri Jett, Terri Carney, Tamara Leech, and Ann Savage. "Diversity in times of austerity: documenting resistance in the academy." Journal of Gender Studies 23, no. 3 (2014): 233-246.