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On being the ‘gender person’ in an academic department : constructions, configurations and implications
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Henderson, Emily F. (2019) On being the ‘gender person’ in an academic department : constructions, configurations and implications. Journal of Gender Studies, 28 (6). pp. 730-742. doi:10.1080/09589236.2019.1620709
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2019.1620709
Abstract
The term ‘gender person’ in an academic department is a colloquial expression which refers to someone who researches and/or teaches about gender, but whose primary affiliation is not to a gender studies department or centre. This role has particularly been discussed in relation to international development organisations, but has been neglected in relation to higher education institutions. The article reapplies Lucy Ferguson’s ‘gender person’ framework to academics working as ‘gender people’ in the conditions of contemporary academia. Three cases of different manifestations of the ‘gender person’ role are explored in detail and analysed for the ways in which occupying the ‘gender person’ role impacts upon academic careers and gender knowledge. The article contributes an elaborated concept of the ‘gender person’ in academia and provides empirical evidence of being the ‘gender person’. The article particularly shows that relying on a ‘gender person’ as a form of gender mainstreaming renders both gender academics and academic departments vulnerable in different ways.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman L Education > LC Special aspects of education |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Gender identity in education, Women in development | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Gender Studies | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0958-9236 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 22 May 2019 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 28 | ||||||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 730-742 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/09589236.2019.1620709 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Publisher Statement: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Gender Studies on 22 May 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09589236.2019.1620709. | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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