TY - BOOK AU - Newman,Janet TI - Working the spaces of power: activism, neoliberalism and gendered labour SN - 1849664897 AV - HQ1236 .N496 2012 U1 - 305.42 23 PY - 2012/// CY - London, New York PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - Women KW - Political activity KW - Women in public life KW - Interviews KW - Political planning KW - Neoliberalism N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: research as mapmaking -- Talking politics -- Perverse alignments: women's activism and the governmentalization of community -- Close encounters: feminism, policy and the remaking of governance -- Modernizing moments: work, organizations and the entrepreneurial self -- Critical engagements: knowledge-work as political practice -- Border work: generating spaces of power -- Activism, neoliberalism and gendered labour -- Postscript: speaking to the present -- Appendix: conducting the research-ethics, methods and modes of analysis ER -