A Community of Disagreement: Feminism in the University

As academic feminism has critiqued the often-violent inscriptions of institutionality, it has also produced a narrative of its role in the university fraught with difficulties of its own. The understanding of difference – as an object to be agreed upon and as the foundation for a diversity model of inclusion – that has emerged as the defining feature of this narrative has also come to serve as the suture point between feminism and the university, a site of presumed resistance to institution...