Academic Desire Trajectories Retooling the Concepts of Subject, Desire and Biography

• Published in: The European journal of women's studies Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 297 - 313
• Main Author: Sondergaard, Dorte Marie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Thousand Oaks, CA SAGE Publications 01.08.2005; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Academic profession; Agency; Biographies; Connectedness; Desire; Discourse; Discourse analysis; Discourses; Empirical Methods; Feminism; Feminist theory; Gender; Gender Studies; Higher education; Methodological approaches; Past experiences; Post-structuralism; Research methods; Subjectivity; Teachers; Universities; University professors; Womens studies; empirical analysis; desire; gender; university; biography; poststructuralism; power; subjectification; methodology; discourse
• ISSN: 1350-5068; 1461-7420
• DOI: 10.1177/1350506805054270

This article is an attempt to rethink the interconnectedness between discourse and subjective agency and to highlight methodological approaches to studies of gendering processes as a central part of it. The notions of desire, subjectification and biography are understood as mediated by narratives an...