As you have probably guessed, I’m administering a final exam and browsing through my blog roll. Here is another fascinating link:
Many readers were duly aghast when I highlighted this “call for applications” (we won’t call it a “job ad”), for a “non-stipendiary residency” at a feminist research center. I was upset about what is apparently a call this center makes (presumably with success) on an annual basis, for one very simple reason: It is advertising for scholars to come and work at this center in exchange for “networking,” “collaboration” and “prestige” instead of money.
Got it? A FEMINIST research center – wait, stay with it for a moment, a feminist center. Remember feminism? – is inviting women to work for free. Women – to work for free. A feminist research center. Makes total sense, that. ‘Cause feminism is all about getting women to do more uncompensated work.
What’s next, uncompensated teaching positions at the Department of African -American Studies? Or below-minimum-wage professorships at the Department of Hispanic Studies? Or the Department of Slavic Studies where professors provide sexual services to fund their research?
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