TY - JOUR
T1 - At the heart or on the periphery
T2 - gender, (in)visibility and epistemic positioning in academia
AU - Järvinen, Margaretha
AU - Mik-Meyer, Nanna
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This article analyses barriers for women’s careers in higher education from a theoretical perspective focusing on epistemic positioning and gendered (in)visibility. The study is based on 96 qualitative interviews with associate professors in economics, political science and sociology in Denmark. Epistemic positioning is operationalised as four distinct processes of marginalisation: reproduction of men’s privileges from cohort to cohort of academics; naturalisation of men’s collaboration with other men; appropriation where men’s research fields and methods are defined as constituting the centre of a discipline; and bounding as the discreditation of some types of research by labelling them ‘female.’ Taken together, the four processes of positioning marginalise women (as epistemic subjects) and their research (as epistemic objects).
AB - This article analyses barriers for women’s careers in higher education from a theoretical perspective focusing on epistemic positioning and gendered (in)visibility. The study is based on 96 qualitative interviews with associate professors in economics, political science and sociology in Denmark. Epistemic positioning is operationalised as four distinct processes of marginalisation: reproduction of men’s privileges from cohort to cohort of academics; naturalisation of men’s collaboration with other men; appropriation where men’s research fields and methods are defined as constituting the centre of a discipline; and bounding as the discreditation of some types of research by labelling them ‘female.’ Taken together, the four processes of positioning marginalise women (as epistemic subjects) and their research (as epistemic objects).
U2 - 10.1080/09540253.2024.2442923
DO - 10.1080/09540253.2024.2442923
M3 - Journal article
JO - Gender and Education
JF - Gender and Education
SN - 0954-0253
ER -