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Social Science Feminism & Feminist Theory

Gender Bias in Scholarship

The Pervasive Prejudice

edited by Winnie Tomm & Gordon Hamilton

Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Calgary Institute
Initial publish date
Jan 2006
Category
Feminism & Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, Research
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780889205826
    Publish Date
    Jan 2006
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889209633
    Publish Date
    Mar 1988
    List Price
    $34.99

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This multi-disciplinary anthology is about hermeneutical issues pertaining to gender ideology in university scholarship. The authors provide, from their own discipline, an extensive examination of the issues raised in the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada pamphlet, "On the Treatment of the Sexes in Research," by Margrit Eichler and Jeanne Lapointe (1985).

Gender bias is described and evaluated in the light of possible alternative perspectives which would alter the content and shape of research, including women as subjects of research and as researchers. The authors underscore the importance of acknowledging underlying gender imagery in the selection, interpretation, and communication of research data. They explore the notion of research as a social construction which is strongly aligned with the socially constructed notion of male and dissociated from the socially constructed notion of female. The focus is on refraining research ideology to include both female- and male-constructed imagery.

Contributors include Marlene Mackie (sociology), Carolyn Larsen (psychology), Estelle Dansereau (literary criticism), Gisele Thibault (education), Alice Mansell (art), Eliane Leslau Silverman (history), Yvonne Lefebvre (biochemistry), Petra von Morstein (philosophy), and Naomi Black (political science).

About the authors

Winnie Tomm was Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Alberta and the author of The Effects of Feminist Approaches on Research Methodologies and The Pervasive Prejudice: Gender Bias in University Research.

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Gordon Hamilton held a Post-Doctoral Fellowships at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities.

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