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Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona

Incarnations and Contestations

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Editors:
  1. Kirsti Niskanen

    1. Department of History, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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  2. Michael J. Barany

    1. Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction: The Scholar Incarnate

    • Kirsti Niskanen, Michael J. Barany
    Pages 1-17

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 349-358
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About this book

This book investigates the historical construction of scholarly personae by integrating a spectrum of recent perspectives from the history and cultural studies of knowledge and institutions. Focusing on gender and embodiment, the contributors analyse the situated performance of scholarly identity and its social and intellectual contexts and consequences. Disciplinary cultures, scholarly practices, personal habits, and a range of social, economic, and political circumstances shape the people and formations of modern scholarship. 


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

“Being a scholar or scientist has always been a way of being in the world, never
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

  • Department of History, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Kirsti Niskanen

  • Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Michael J. Barany

About the editors

Kirsti Niskanen is Professor Emeritus of History in the Department of History at Stockholm University, Sweden, and principal investigator of the Scientific Personae in Cultural Encounters project. 


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

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