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Difference, Power and Women in the Academy

Identity and Difference and Gender, Teaching and Research in Higher Education deal with the position of women within the academy. Read together, these two edited collections serve to provide a wide-ranging and critical reading of the academy. Identity and Difference (ID) was inspired by the 1997 Gender and Education conference. Working from a range of feminist perspectives and using qualitative, narrative and autobiographical approaches, the 14 chapters focus in different ways on the position of “outsiders within” and the varying articulations of difference, including the intersections between gender, “race”, class and disability, through everyday experience as academics and learners. Gender, Teaching and Research in Higher Education (GTR) gathers together conference papers from a conference hosted by the Institute for Feminist Theory and Research in 2000. Working from a range of gender and feminist perspectives, this book aims to discuss “the purpose and product of Higher Education”, with a particular emphasis on questions around the transmission of learning, the audit and performance culture, the devaluation of women’s academic work, and the “institutionalisation of the feminist scholar” (Howie & Tauchert, introduction pp. 1–2). This collection focuses primarily on women as academics, rather than learners, although issues of pedagogy and curriculum are central to many of the 20 chapters. Again, reflection on personal experience is an important part of this collection. It is hard to do justice here to two such diverse collections; however, the following two areas really stood out for me in reading these texts alongside each other.