An Introduction toScientific Masculinities

Bibliographic Data

ID3924716
AuthorsErika Lorraine Milam (0000-0002-0440-709X, corresponding author), Robert A Nye
Year2015
Volume30
Issue1
Pages1-14
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueOsiris (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/682953
PMID27066616
OpenAlexW2229973005
LanguageEN
Citations received24
References cited50

This volume seeks to integrate gender analysis into the global history of science and medicine from the late Middle Ages to the present by focusing on masculinity, the part of the gender equation that has received the least attention from scholars. The premise of the volume is that social constructions of masculinity function simultaneously as foils for femininity and as methods of differentiating between "kinds" of men. In exploring scientific masculinities without taking the dominance of men and masculinity in the sciences for granted, we ask, What is masculinity and how does it operate in science? Our answers remind us that gender is at once an analytical category and a historical object. The essays are divided into three sections that in turn emphasize the importance of gender to the professionalization of scientific, technological, and medical practices, the spaces in which such labor is performed, and the ways that sex, gender, and sexual orientation are measured and serve as metaphors in society and culture

Epistemology · Femininity · Masculinity · Premise · Professionalization · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History and Developments in Astronomy · History of Science and Natural History · Philosophy · Psychology

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