Titel
Im/possible Careers. Gendered Perspectives on Scholarly Personae around 1900
Abstract
In German-speaking countries as elsewhere, women, especially from the middle classes, demanded entry into the male-dominated academic world with growing vehemence around 1900. This essay focuses on the constellations and dynamics that prompted the reframing of the social field of knowledge production. Taking the case of the women’s rights activist and writer Käthe Schirmacher, who publicly campaigned for women’s access to higher education, I explore the motivations, social transformations and socially available life plans behind her path. To this end, I draw on the concept of the scholarly persona as a mediating instance between individual aspirations and social relations and examine its potential for a gender-sensitive intellectual history. Here I argue that a differentiated analysis of knowledge production in the sciences and the humanities is only possible if non-institutional and, therefore, less obvious gender regimes are also addressed. The institutional and private arrangements that enable academics, intellectuals, and also artists to concentrate on their work play an essential part in their production of knowledge and artistic work. Therefore, the key argument of this paper is that questions about gender-specific (as well as class-specific) life plans in various creative social fields can only be examined in a differentiated way if this support is systematically included in research on the scholarly, intellectual, or artistic persona.
Stichwort
scholarly personagenderdomestic workintellectuals
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
Erschienen in
Titel
European Journal of Life Writing
Band
11
ISSN
2211-243X
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Seitenanfang
70
Seitenende
102
Publication
University of Groningen Press
Änderungsdatum
2022
Zugänglichkeit
Rechteangabe
© 2022 Johanna Gehmacher

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