Knowing Her Place

Knowing Her Place
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Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 9781783476527
ISBN-13 : 1783476524
Rating : 4/5 (524 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Knowing Her Place by : Valerie Bevan

Download or read book Knowing Her Place written by Valerie Bevan and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More women are studying science at university and they consistently outperform men. Yet, still, significantly fewer women than men hold prestigious jobs in science. Why should this occur? What prevents women from achieving as highly as men in science? And why are so few women positioned as ‘creative genius’ research scientists? Drawing upon the views of 47 (female and male) scientists, Bevan and Gatrell explore why women are less likely than men to become eminent in their profession. They observe three mechanisms which perpetuate women’s lowered ‘place’ in science: subtle masculinities (whereby certain forms of masculinity are valued over womanhood); (m)otherhood (in which women’s potential for maternity positions them as ‘other’), and the image of creative genius which is associated with male bodies, excluding women from research roles.


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