Feminist philosophers have challenged a wide range of gender injustices in professional philosophy. However, the problem of precarity, that is, the increasing numbers of contingent faculty who cannot find permanent employment, has received scarcely any attention. What explains this oversight? In this article, I argue, first, that academics are held in the grips of an ideology that diverts attention away from the structural conditions of precarity, and second, that the gendered dimensions of such an ideology have been overlooked. To do so, I identify two myths: the myth of meritocracy and the myth of work as its own reward. I demonstrate that these myths—and the two‐tier system itself—manifest an unmistakably gendered logic, such that gender and precarity are mutually reinforcing and co‐constitutive. I conclude that feminist philosophers have particular reason to organize against the casualization of academic work.

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car可危是女性主义的问题：学院中的性别与临时劳动

女权主义哲学家在职业哲学中挑战了广泛的性别不公。然而，不稳定的问题，即越来越多的无法找到长期工作的特遣队教师，几乎没有受到关注。是什么解释了这种疏忽？在本文中，我认为，首先，学者被一种意识形态所束缚，使人们的注意力从不稳定的结构条件转移开来，其次，这种意识形态的性别维度被忽略了。为此，我确定了两个神话：精英管理神话和工作神话作为其自身的报酬。我证明了这些神话以及两层体系本身证明了无可置疑的性别逻辑，从而使性别和不稳定因素相辅相成。