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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherSpringer Nature Switzerland A&G
ISBN-139783030496050
eBay Product ID (ePID)9046679800
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Number of Pages358 Pages
Publication NameGender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona: Incarnations and Contestations
LanguageEnglish
SubjectZoology, Science, History
Publication Year2021
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaBioengineering
AuthorMichael J. Barany, Kirsti Niskanen
Dimensions
Item Height210 mm
Item Weight621 g
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EditorMichael J. Barany, Kirsti Niskanen
Country/Region of ManufactureSwitzerland