“There was no ‘first woman’”: The historical politics of gender, science, and exploration in twentieth-century US Antarctic fieldwork ...
The following dissertation examines the history of gendered change in twentieth century Antarctic fieldwork, focused on the US Antarctic Research Program. It responds to the calls of feminist historical geographers and historians of science for critical analysis of gendered exclusion and inclusion i...
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ftdatacite:10.17863/cam.84696 2024-02-04T09:54:56+01:00 “There was no ‘first woman’”: The historical politics of gender, science, and exploration in twentieth-century US Antarctic fieldwork ... Seag, Morgan 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.84696 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/337281 en eng Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository embargo All Rights Reserved https://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved/ http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_f1cf Historical geography History of science Antarctica Gender Dissertation Thesis thesis 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.84696 2024-01-05T15:15:57Z The following dissertation examines the history of gendered change in twentieth century Antarctic fieldwork, focused on the US Antarctic Research Program. It responds to the calls of feminist historical geographers and historians of science for critical analysis of gendered exclusion and inclusion in remote scientific spaces, which represents a lacuna in the studies of exploration and fieldwork. The dissertation responds with the first in-depth study of the norms, narratives, practices, and processes that underpinned the exclusion of women from US Antarctic activity through most of the twentieth century, as well as those that structured women’s eventual access. In so doing, it contributes to debates about gendered boundaries in science and exploration, illuminating a complex relationship between discursive and institutional change and arguing for greater appreciation of the link between historiography and social change. The dissertation advances both chronologically and thematically, its structure guided by ... Thesis Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic |
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The following dissertation examines the history of gendered change in twentieth century Antarctic fieldwork, focused on the US Antarctic Research Program. It responds to the calls of feminist historical geographers and historians of science for critical analysis of gendered exclusion and inclusion in remote scientific spaces, which represents a lacuna in the studies of exploration and fieldwork. The dissertation responds with the first in-depth study of the norms, narratives, practices, and processes that underpinned the exclusion of women from US Antarctic activity through most of the twentieth century, as well as those that structured women’s eventual access. In so doing, it contributes to debates about gendered boundaries in science and exploration, illuminating a complex relationship between discursive and institutional change and arguing for greater appreciation of the link between historiography and social change. The dissertation advances both chronologically and thematically, its structure guided by ... |
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