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Working the Spaces of Power
Activism, Neoliberalism and Gendered Labour
Abstract
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book highlights the way in which contemporary forms of governance, policy and politics have been reframed by women 'working the spaces of power'. It shows how they took activist commitments into their working lives, in the process negotiating the terrain of neoliberal governance. Their work generated new political movements, community initiatives, public policies, organizational logics and forms of 'knowledge work'. Newman draws on over 50 interviews with women from four generations to interrogate, develop and challenge existing approaches to understanding social and political change. In a postscript she traces ways in which the analysis might 'speak to the present' and offer resources for contemporary politics and practice.
Keywords
Gender studies, gender groupsDOI
10.5040/9781849666725ISBN
9781780932781, 9781780932774, 9781849665001, 9781780932781Publisher
Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher website
https://www.bloomsbury.com/academic/Publication date and place
London, 2012Imprint
Bloomsbury AcademicClassification
Gender studies, gender groups
Sociology: work and labour
Politics and government