Call for Papers for the organisation of a session on 'Women in Science in the European Periphery' at the 7th STEP Meeting (Galway, 17-20 2010).
Please find attached the Call for Papers for the organisation of a session on 'Women in Science in the European Periphery' at the 7th STEP Meeting (Galway, 17-20 2010).
The aim of this session is to provide case-studies which analyse the participation of women in science from the ‘periphery’ (either within Europe or beyond Europe), and reflect on the historiographical and methodological issues raised. Through the examination of the place of women in science, as well as the shaping of the concept of gender in specific cultural contexts, we hope to enrich our knowledge on scientific cultures and their ideological underpinnings. We are particularly interested in exploring the strategies women use for legitimating themselves, their appropriation of scientific discourse or the shaping of their own, their publication strategies, their alliances (political or religious support for example), their use of networks (i.e. family, religious, political), the ways in which they negotiate with other collectives and scientific institutions etc. In respect to the ‘periphery question’, we would like to explore how these women situated themselves in the context of science and periphery, whether they used the concepts of ‘centres’ and ‘peripheries’ in their lives and work, and whether these concepts related to their gender. Apart from accounting for the make up of the scientific population in the periphery, we’d also like to account for the engendering process of science. Can we observe any particularities to such processes when standing on the periphery?
The aim of this session is to provide case-studies which analyse the participation of women in science from the ‘periphery’ (either within Europe or beyond Europe), and reflect on the historiographical and methodological issues raised. Through the examination of the place of women in science, as well as the shaping of the concept of gender in specific cultural contexts, we hope to enrich our knowledge on scientific cultures and their ideological underpinnings. We are particularly interested in exploring the strategies women use for legitimating themselves, their appropriation of scientific discourse or the shaping of their own, their publication strategies, their alliances (political or religious support for example), their use of networks (i.e. family, religious, political), the ways in which they negotiate with other collectives and scientific institutions etc. In respect to the ‘periphery question’, we would like to explore how these women situated themselves in the context of science and periphery, whether they used the concepts of ‘centres’ and ‘peripheries’ in their lives and work, and whether these concepts related to their gender. Apart from accounting for the make up of the scientific population in the periphery, we’d also like to account for the engendering process of science. Can we observe any particularities to such processes when standing on the periphery?