Gender Studies and the New Academic Governance

1. Introduction: Gender Studies and the New Academic Governance
Heike Kahlert

Part I. Interventions: Gender, Gender Studies and Academic Feminism

2. Gender in the Neo-liberal Research Economy: An Enervating and Exclusionary Entanglement?
Louise Morley

3. Gender Studies at the Time of Neo-liberal Transformation in Estonian Academia
Kadri Aavik, Raili Marling

4. Neo-liberalism and Feminism in the South African Academy
Desiree Lewis

Part II. Interactions: Gender Research, Academic Feminism and Society

5. The Relationship between Gender Research and Society in the Norwegian Brainwash Controversy of 2010–2011
Pia Vuolanto

6. The Place for Gender Research in Contemporary Portuguese Science and Higher Education Policies within the Context of Neo-liberalism
Amélia Augusto, Catarina Sales Oliveira, Emília Araújo, Carla Cerqueira

7. On the Use of Innovation Arguments for Getting Gender Research into STEM
Sigrid Schmitz

8. Academic Feminism and Exclusion in Brazil: Bringing Back Some of the Missing Voices
Cristiano Rodrigues, Mariana Prandini Assis

Part III. Institutionalisations: Gender Studies’ Epistemic and OrganisationalStatuses in the Academy

9. The Institutionalisation of Gender Studies and the New Academic Governance: Longstanding Patterns and Emerging Paradoxes
Maria Mar Pereira

10. Gender Studies: A ‘Cheeky Knowledge’ Renormalised?
Farinaz Fassa, Sabine Kradolfer

11. Gender Equality as a Boon and a Bane to Gender Studies in the Conditions of the New Academic Governance
Heike Kahlert

12. Gender Studies in the Czech Republic: Institutionalisation Meets Neo-liberalism Contingent on Geopolitics
Blanka Nyklová

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Knowledge - Discourse