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Concludes an edited vol of personal ruminations by feminist scholars on the experience of marginality in the academy in the US, UK, & Europe. This marginal status, understood in terms of sheer numbers, epistemological foundation of theory & research, & research topics, has been exacerbated in recent years by an encroaching managerialist sensibility in the university that has become a rallying cry for efficiency & greater fiscal austerity. It is suggested that a starting point for resistance is to cease the quest for a stable home for feminist thinking & practice in the university. Instead, scholars are encouraged to realize that stability is impossible, & a constantly shifting position of inside & outside perspective might reduce the effort to demarcate us from them, & instead lead to more healthy & positive relationships across universities & disciplines. 10 References. D. M. Ryfe

The specification of temporal origins for biography and autobiography — typically within the Enlightenment or modernism — that appear in sociological discussion are interrogated through discussing two parallel sites of origin. The first is Merton's discussion of `sociological autobiography', the second the feminist concern with reflexivity within sociological research processes. Both are related to the notion of `auto/biography'. `Auto/biography' disrupts conventional taxonomies of life writing, disputing its divisions of self/other, public/private, and immediacy/memory. Relatedly, `the auto/biographical I' signals the active inquiring presence of sociologists in constructing, rather than discovering, knowledge.