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Claiming their intellectual space

Academic women at the University of New Zealand 1909–1941

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ID10325550
AuthorsTanya Fitzgerald (0000-0001-6275-0964, The University of Western Australia, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume56
Issue6
Pages819-830
Publication date2019-10-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePaedagogica Historica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-9230 • E-ISSN: 1477-674X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00309230.2019.1676270
OpenAlexW2981653886
LanguageEN
Citations received3

The focus of this article is the first cohort of academic women who carved out an intellectual space for themselves in the Department of Home Science at the University of New Zealand. I begin with an overview of emerging appointment patterns of academic women against a backdrop of contemporary concerns about the higher education of women. I then turn my attention to ways in which women home scientists sought to define and develop their disciplinary expertise and professional knowledge. I trace the career trajectories of the first three women professors and highlight the extent to which these women worked to define their own intellectual boundaries, establish themselves as experts in a feminised scientific field while at the same time working within a gendered domain. I move beyond thinking about the factors and forces that inextricably linked women with domestic space of the home, and invite consideration of women’s work as scientists of the home, consumer educators, and experts in new fields of research

Discipline · Field (mathematics · Higher education · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Work (physics · Engineering · Gender Studies · Historical Education Studies Worldwide · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law

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    Open Access•Fiona Denney•Educational Management…•2023

  • Lines of Exchange

    Open Access•Tanya Fitzgerald, Diane Kirkby et al.•History of Education•2024

  • An Autoethnography beyond Academia

    Open Access•Helen Owton•Journal of Contemporary Ethnography•2025

Unique citing works3
Citations per year1
Citation span2023 - 2025 (3)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 3

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