Power, knowledge and feminist scholarship : an ethnography of academia / Maria do Mar Pereira.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Acknowledgements -- Notes on the presentation of material introduction -- An outsider within? : the position and status of wgfs in academia chapter -- Pushing and pulling the boundaries of knowledge : a feminist theory of epistemic status -- Wgfs in the performative university -- The epistemic status of WGDS in times of paradoxical change -- WGFS is proper knowledge, but -- : the splitting of feminist scholarship chapter -- Putting WGFS on the map(s) : the boundary-work of WGFS scholars -- The importance of being foreign and modern : the geopolitics of the epistemic status of WGFS -- WGFS in the performative university -- The mood of academia and its impact on our knowledge and our lives conclusion : negotiating the boundaries of proper knowledge and of work in the (not quite fully) performative university.