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Looking More Into Our Economic Class: Makings Of A Standpoint, Jessica Eylem
Looking More Into Our Economic Class: Makings Of A Standpoint, Jessica Eylem
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
Everyone has their own experiences that lead them to their own feminist consciousness. It creates who we are, both as a person and as a feminist. My own experiences in life have led me to consider the standpoints of class within our society, especially within academia. From the beginning of my academic career, I have been told to hide the social class that I am in to fit in with those around me. Academia is based off of appearance, perpetuated by the glass ceiling and everyone is expected to behave and act in a certain way to succeed. Through a …
Critical Spaces: Processes Of Othering In British Institutions Of Higher Education, Aretha Phiri
Critical Spaces: Processes Of Othering In British Institutions Of Higher Education, Aretha Phiri
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
Global recession and the economic crisis have affected contemporary British society in predictable ways. But this age of austerity has also unveiled the continued sinister machinations of whiteness. While not necessarily homogeneous, austerity rhetoric, as it is currently conventionally deployed, works to perpetuate white masculinist privilege and further entrenches the normative value of whiteness, while simultaneously masking and marginalizing those ethnic minority populations traditionally othered from mainstream sociopolitical discourse. More specifically, recent austerity measures adversely affect the situation of women and the future of feminist theory and practice in British higher education. This paper investigates and problematizes the deployment of …