Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona

Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 9783030496067
ISBN-13 : 3030496066
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Book Synopsis Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona by : Kirsti Niskanen

Download or read book Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona written by Kirsti Niskanen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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