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Women, 'Failure' and Academia: Activism, Creativity and Critique in the Contemporary University

Women, 'Failure' and Academia: Activism, Creativity and Critique in the Contemporary University

Cano, Marina
García-Periago, Rosa
Moreau, Marie-Pierre

Hardcover

Series: Bloomsbury Gender and Education

General Education

ISBN10: 1350528668
ISBN13: 9781350528666
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: May 14 2026
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This open access book examines failures in contemporary academia, and especially the intersections between gender and academic failure.

It argues that academic failure is political, and that seemingly personal failures to achieve a standard or expected academic career (tenure, funding, publications, etc.) should be understood in the context of institutional failures and systemic inequalities. Through theoretical discussions and/or personal reflections on their individual experiences of failure, contributors to the volume address how academic failure can illuminate, and sometimes subvert, the institutional barriers often faced by women and women-identifying scholars in the contemporary university.

The collection is interdisciplinary, intersectional and international and covers topics such as Covid-19, precarity and job hunting, ethnic diversity, accounts of incomplete research, motherhood and disability within the academy. Contributors include established and emerging scholars in Australia, New Zealand, Spain, the UK and the USA. Conceived as scholarly activism, Women, 'Failure' and Academia aims to interrogate the future of universities and challenge perceptions of failure, especially with regard to women and women-identifying academics.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

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