Overview
- Includes a foreword by Ludmilla Jordanova
- Advances research on the history of science and learning, offering new historical perspectives on the emerging field of persona studies
- Explores how social and cultural factors shape academic identity and knowledge production more broadly
- Chapters focus particularly on gender and embodiment, examining academic femininities and masculinities within scholarly institutions and ideals
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Personae on the Move
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Multiple Masculinities
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About this book
Featuring a foreword by Ludmilla Jordanova, Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona: Incarnations and Contestations is of interest to historians, sociologists, media and culture scholars, and all those with a stake in the personal dimensions of scholarship. An international group of scholars present original examinations of travel, globalisation, exchange, training, evaluation, self-representation, institution-building, norm-setting, virtue-defining, myth-making, and other gendered and embodied modes and mechanisms of scholarly persona-work. These accounts nuance and challenge existing understandings of the relationship between knowledge and identity.
Reviews
just a job. This highly readable collection of essays explores how (and how not) to
become the very model of a mathematician or a historian or a naturalist. Forget
white lab coats and horn-rimmed glasses: as this book shows in vivid detail,
assuming a learned persona can shape bodies as well as minds, characters as
well as costumes.”
— Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael J. Barany is Lecturer in the History of Science in the Science, Technology & Innovation Studies subject group at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona
Book Subtitle: Incarnations and Contestations
Editors: Kirsti Niskanen, Michael J. Barany
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49606-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49605-0Published: 20 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49608-1Published: 20 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49606-7Published: 19 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 358
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: History, general, History of Science, Cultural History, Biotechnology, Gender Studies