Briony Lipton & Elizabeth Mackinlay 
We Only Talk Feminist Here 
Feminist Academics, Voice and Agency in the Neoliberal University

This book explores what it means to ‘only talk feminist here’ in the contemporary neoliberal university. How do feminist academics effect change? How are feminist voices sounded, heard, received, silenced, and masked?
We Only Talk Feminist Here offers insight into the complexities, contradictions, and possibilities of ‘talking feminist’; of writing as speaking, problematising notions of voice and agency, of speaking into the silences and the ways in which we fight for and flee to feminist spaces, and of talking back. This book presents new possibilities for framing ‘talking feminist’ differently, by exploring what we say, when we say it, how we say it, and what it means when we do any of these things in terms of our multiple and shifting feminist subjectivities.
We Only Talk Feminist Here draws upon interviews and conversations with feminist academics in Australia to demonstrate the performative and discursive moves feminist academics make in order to be heard and effectchange to the gendered status quo in Australian higher education. 

Table of Content

Chapter 1. Introduction: Framing Feminist Talk.- Chapter 2. Writing as Speaking.- Chapter 3. Concepts of Voice and Feminism.- Chapter 4. Speaking into the Silence.- Chapter 5. A Final (In)decision: Talking Feminist.

About the author

Briony Lipton is a Ph D Candidate in the School of Sociology,  The Australian National University, Australia. Her current research explores the relationship between academic women, feminism, neoliberalism, university leadership, and gender equality in Australian higher education. 






Elizabeth Mackinlay is Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Queensland, Australia. Her current research projects include the politics and pedagogies of Indigenous Australian studies, mentoring Indigenous pre-service teachers, autoethnography, and feminism in higher education.