Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction
Talking Politics
Perverse Alignments: Women's Activism and the Governmentalisation of Community
Close Encounters: Feminism, Policy and the Remaking of Governance
Modernising Moments: Work, Organisations and the Entrepreneurial Self
Critical Engagements: Knowledge Work as Political Practice
Border Work: Generating Spaces of Power
Conclusion: Activism, Neoliberalism and Gendered Labour
Postscript: Speaking to the Present
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