As academic feminism has critiqued the oftenviolent inscriptions of institutionality it has also produced a narrative of its role in the university fraught with difficulties of its own. The understanding of difference as an object to be agreed upon and as the foundation for a diversity model of inclusion that has emerged as the defining feature of this narrative has also come to serve as the suture point between feminism and the university a site of presumed resistance to institutionality. Engaging in a close reading of the literature on the current state of academic feminism as well as a variety of bureaucratic organizational and scholarly texts on the US university Danielle Bouchard draws from contemporary political philosophy postcolonial and women of color feminisms and poststructuralist social theory in order to examine feminisms relationship to what has become one of the central missions of the US university the management of difference.