I Just Did Everything Physically Possible to Get in There”
How Men and Women Chemists Enact Masculinity Differently
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13089296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura E Hirshfield (0000-0003-0894-2994, University of Illinois Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 324-340 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-07 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Currents (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2329-4965 • E-ISSN: 2329-4973 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2329496515603727 |
| OpenAlex | W2212795681 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 55 |
This ethnographic study focuses on how men and women chemistry graduate students are socialized to “do masculinity” differently in scientific contexts. Using results from nine months of observation and 40 semistructured interviews from five labs at a research-intensive university, I argue that the link between men, science, and academia may allow men, but not women, graduate students leeway in establishing their claim to scientific authority. Thus, men graduate students may be able to perform gender in more varied and complex ways than their women peers. In contrast, women graduate students, who do not embody masculinity, may feel more pressure to conform to the strict norms of competition that are associated with traditional masculinity
Competition (biology · Ethnography · Graduate students · Masculinity · Pedagogy · Sociology · Anthropology · Career Development and Diversity · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sports, Gender, and Society · Ecology
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Gender differences in academic entrepreneurship
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Translingual negotiation in mixed‐gender communication
Disappearing Acts
Nepotism and sexism in peer-review
Preparing the Next Generation of Faculty
Has Feminism Changed Science?
Scientific collaboration
The Student-Physician
Female Masculinity
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
Athena Unbound
The Shifting Supply of Men and Women to Occupations
W omen Constructing Masculinity in Voluntary Firefighting
Crumbling Ivory Towers
Unsettling Universities' Incongruous, Gendered Bureaucratic Structures
Gender, Culture and Authority in a University Life Sciences Laboratory
Re/theorising gender
Masculine femininities/feminine masculinities
Response to Mary Lou Rasmussen’s ‘Beyond Gender Identity’
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Student Evaluations and Gendered Expectations
The Impact of Gender on the Review of the Curricula Vitae of Job Applicants and Tenure Candidates
The Matilda Effect in science
Lab Hands’ and the ‘Scarlet O’
Limiting Inequality through Interaction
Graduate School and the Self
Gender, Status, and Leadership
Performing Masculinity
Naturalistic inquiry
Culture and the self
The practice of social research
Gender and Power
Organizational Socialization in Higher Education
There Oughtta Be a Law Against Bitches
Models of the self
Gender As Social Institution
Why Can't a Man Be More Like a Woman? Reflections on Connell's Masculinities
Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies
Doing Gender
Distancing as a Gendered Barrier
Framed Before We Know It
Racializing the Glass Escalator
Hegemonic Masculinity
Gender As a Social Structure
Unpacking the Gender System
Said and Done' Versus 'Saying and Doing
The Gender System and Interaction
What is hegemonic masculinity
| Citations per year | 0.86 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |