Abstract
ABSTRACT This article explores the experiences of a group of women on two senior academic committees at the University of the Western Cape, in order to understand how practices in such committees contribute to the exclusion and marginalisation of women, and particular constructions of subjectivity. The broader university context, its history and current ranking of academic women and men, black and white, provides a contextual frame for the narrower focus. Experience is not seen to 'speak' for itself, even where narrative 'episodes' attempt to portray what it must be like to 'be there'. Thus, post-structuralist insights reveal women's contestation as well as accommodation of relations of domination so that the account is studded through with moments in which this group of academic women are powerful as well as powerless, speaking as well as silent, struggling against/with inner voices and outdated cultural scripts.
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