Format:
1 Online-Ressource (554 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9783666302596
Series Statement:
Studien zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Band 7
Uniform Title:
Hierarchien. Das Unbehagen der Geschlechter mit dem Harnack-Prinzip
Content:
The Max Planck Society (MPG), one of the most successful research institutions worldwide, serves as a prime example of the German science system, in which hierarchies and relations of dependency play a major role. This body stands center stage in the present book, which analyzes processes of socio-cultural and structural transformation at the MPG during the first fifty years of its existence – from the non-transparent interdependencies typical of informal networks to a modern research institution geared towards gender equality policy. Two women’s working worlds within this research organization are analyzed through a cultural history and history-of-science lens. One of them, science, was long closed to all but a tiny number of women. The other was the office, where most women in this context worked most of the time. What promoted female scientific careers at the MPG, what obstructed them, and what role did the »Harnack Principle,« the MPG’s own structural principle of the personality-centered organization of research, play in these processes? The book also foregrounds the negotiation of gender equality processes beginning in the late 1980s, which helped break down the traditional gender order and trigger a cultural shift at the Max Planck Society.
Note:
Dissertation Universität Leipzig 2021
Additional Edition:
Übersetzung von Kolboske, Birgit, 1962 - Hierarchien. Das Unbehagen der Geschlechter mit dem Harnack-Prinzip
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783525302590
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kolboske, Birgit, 1962 - Hierarchies Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024 ISBN 9783525302590
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3525302592
Language:
English
Keywords:
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
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Gender
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Hierarchie
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Wissen
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Macht
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Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.13109/9783666302596
Author information:
Skinner, Alex
Author information:
Kolboske, Birgit 1962-
