Resounding Voices: Women, Silence, and the Production of Knowledge International Women’s Day Conference
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Katherine Jane Cecil, UCL ‘Woman in Science: Epistemic Cracks and Sticky Boundaries’ As a child, I was a keen orienteer. I would spend days attempting to get from point A to point B in the most efficient way. I learnt very quickly, that routes and maps were not always to be trusted, that often there were unexpected features that lay off the grid which could further aid my overall objective. Similarly, In order to explain cultural boundaries in science, Thomas Gieryn (1999) creates a system of epistemic cartography. Gieryn explores the interfaces that exist between knowledge, and how in this grey area, ideas shift and influence the boundaries that surround them. In this paper I will argue that there are weak spots that exist within the spaces inbetween the dominant (white/wealthy male) boundaries, and that when pushed from epistemic cracks that females might utilise to break into the current masculine system of science.
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