Author Identifier
Emma Fishwick: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0932-4127
Mindy Blaise: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2476-9407
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Journal of Gender Studies
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
School
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) / Centre for People, Place and Planet
RAS ID
77102
Abstract
This paper offers analysis of the first phase of a research project, Understanding and Addressing Everyday Sexisms in Australian Universities. This phase involved a critical content analysis of all 39 of Australia’s public university websites, focusing on how they represent gender, absences in relation to gender and the navigability of the websites in relation to gender equity policy. Drawing on Maria Lugones’s colonialities of gender, this paper demonstrates how university websites have the potential to reproduce or renegotiate inherited institutional everyday sexisms and broader gender inequities. Themes of reconfiguring acceptable gendering, conspicuous absences, and in-built obscurity that emerged from this process are discussed. The paper invites the reader to conduct their own content analysis as an intervention to increase their awareness of the imaginaries their university website offers. Throughout the paper, examples of better practices–everyday feminisms–are highlighted, inviting universities and other public institutions to rethink their online architectures.
DOI
10.1080/09589236.2024.2429695
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in JOURNAL OF GENDER STUDIES on 20th November 2024, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09589236.2024.2429695
Gray, E. M., Pasley, A., Fishwick, E., Blaise, M., Ullman, J., & Delaney, M. (2024). Australian university websites as colonialities of gender. Journal of Gender Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2024.2429695