Globalisation and the restructuring of higher education for new knowledge economies : new dangers or old habits troubling gender equity work in universities?

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Author	BLACKMORE, Jill
Title	Globalisation and the restructuring of higher education for new knowledge economies : new dangers or old habits troubling gender equity work in universities?
Publication year	2002
Source/Footnote	In: Higher education quarterly. - 56 (2002) 4. - S. 419 - 441
Inventory number	15489
Keywords	Frauen in der Wissenschaft ; Qualitätssicherung ; Ausland : Australien : Hochschulwesen allgemein
Abstract	This article undertakes a feminist critique of the restructuring of the modern university in Australia. It considers the interaction of the processes of globalisation, corporatisation (through the twin strategies of marketisation and managerialism) and the social relations of gender, and their implication for gender equity work in the academy. The paper locates the reform of Australian universities within their Western context, and considers the gendered effects of the new disciplinary technologies of quality assurance and online learning on the position of women academics. It concludes with some comments about the shift in language from equity to diversity which has accompanied corporatisation, and how this has effectively coopted women?s intellectual labour to do the work of the entrepreneurial university. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)