Dirty Body Politics
Habitus, Gendered Embodiment, and the Resistance to Women's Agency in Transforming South African Higher Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12311142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Grace Ese‐osa Idahosa (0000-0002-8950-6651, Centre for Social Change University of Johannesburg South Africa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 988-1003 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender Work and Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0968-6673 • E-ISSN: 1468-0432 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gwao.12425 |
| OpenAlex | W2989650672 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 36 |
In discussing the difficulty with transformation, research notes that women and Blacks are excluded and marginalised by the cultures and practices within universities in South Africa. While the literature highlights the invisibility of these minorities in universities, with their bodies only becoming visible as tokens, or when representing minority issues, it is silent on how this plays out in interchanges in the transformation process, the embodiment of gender, and the resistance to women's agency within the field of higher education transformation. Adopting a hermeneutic phenomenological lens and Bourdieu's concept of field and habitus, this study examines ten academics' experiences of having agency to effect transformation. In particular, it explores women's narratives of body‐centered attacks in expressions of resistance to their transformation strategies, revealing the normalisation of the White, male body. This normalisation obscures the gendered processes of transformation and the bodily resistance to women's agency, revealed in tugging, pulling, shutting doors and having metaphorical knives pulled from their backs. The study argues that this not only prevents women from exercising their agency, but also ensures the reproduction of oppressive relations within the university and should be directly addressed in the struggle for transformation
Agency (philosophy · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Habitus · Invisibility · Narrative · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Reproduction · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Anthropology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |