Feminist scholarship is typically brushed off as now not really ‘proper’ wisdom – it’s too political or subjective, many argue. yet what are the limits of ‘proper’ wisdom? Who defines them, and the way are they altering? How do feminists negotiate them? and the way does this boundary-work impact women’s and gender experiences, and its students’ and scholars’ lives?

These are the questions tackled by way of this ground-breaking ethnography of academia encouraged by means of feminist epistemology, Foucault, and technological know-how and know-how reports. Drawing on information accrued over a decade in Portugal and the united kingdom, US and Scandinavia, this name explores diversified areas of educational paintings and sociability, contemplating either professional discourse and ‘corridor talk’. It hyperlinks epistemic negotiations to the transferring political financial system of educational labour, and situates the smallest (but fiercest) departmental negotiations inside of worldwide family of unequal educational trade. via those hyperlinks, this well timed quantity additionally increases pressing questions on the present kingdom and standing of gender stories and the temper of up to date academia. certainly, its sobering, but uplifting, dialogue of that temper deals clean perception into what it capability to provide feminist paintings inside neoliberal cultures of educational performativity, difficult expanding productivity.

As the 1st publication to examine how teachers speak (publicly or in off-the-record humour) approximately feminist scholarship, Power, wisdom and Feminist Scholarship is vital interpreting for students and scholars in gender reports, LGBTQ reviews, post-colonial stories, STS, sociology and education.