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Analytical Strategy for Dealing with Neutrality Claims and Implicit Masculinity Constructions: Methodological Challenges for Gender Studies in Science and Technology

Neutralitätsansprüchen und impliziten Männlichkeitskonstruktionen in den Natur- und Technikwissenschaften analytisch begegnen: methodologische Herausforderungen und Analysestrategien für die Geschlechterforschung

On the basis of an empirical example, we offer in this article a methodological discussion of the challenges and pitfalls gender studies scholars face when analyzing how gender norms are attributed to epistemic cultures in science and engineering. Faced with actors who claim neutrality and objectivity for themselves and their work, the challenge is to analyze gender norms that are mostly implicit …

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Creator

  • Paulitz, Tanja
  • Kink, Susanne
  • Prietl, Bianca

Subject

  • Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
  • Sociology & anthropology
  • Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
  • Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
  • Sociology of Knowledge
  • gender studies
  • natural sciences
  • engineering science
  • gender
  • gender role
  • …
  • Natural science
  • Gender studies
  • Engineering

Type of item

  • Zeitschriftenartikel