How to Suppress the Careers of Female Social Scientists - Volume 1

A Feminist Ethnographic Anti-manual from Chile
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-84131-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 627 g

This book is the first of a series of five volumes that analyze and denounce the gender inequalities and violence faced by Latin American female social scientists in academic settings. The five volumes will present and discuss the results of an ethnographic research project conducted in four countries – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico – to analyze gender inequalities experienced by Latin American women in five dimensions of academic life: undergraduate education, graduate education, labor insertion, professional performance in stable positions, and gender violence faced at work.

This first volume narrates the creation of the research project, from the formulation of its methodological strategy to the application and analysis of its first case study in Chile. It presents the theoretical-methodological perspective adopted in the whole project – a feminist ethnography that draws on the intersubjective role of female experiences to denounce situations of power inequality – and analyses the testimonies of 50 female academics working in 12 universities in nine cities of Chile.

The title of the five-volume set, , pays homage to the seminal work of Joanna Russ about gender inequalities faced by female writers, , and this first volume is both a "manual" and an "anti-manual". On the one hand, the first two parts of the book serve as a "manual" that situates the Chilean case, clarifies the methodological construction of the research project and discusses the limitations and possibilities of feminist methodologies in the social sciences. On the other hand, the third and fourth parts of the book are ironically presented as an “anti-manual” that explain how the careers of female social scientists are destroyed by intersectional gender-based inequalities and violence, even in social contexts that are open to equity policies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guizardi, Menara

Stefoni, Carolina

Gonzálvez, Herminia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: The Risks of Silence.- Part I: A Manual for Extending and Situating the Case.- Chapter 2: Historical Overview. The Insertion of Female Social Scientists in Chile (1990-2023).- Chapter 3: Statistical Overview. Gender Inequalities in Chilean Social Sciences.- Chapter 4: Institutional Overview. Gender Equality Regulations, Policies, and Programs in Science and Higher Education in Chile (2000-2023).- Part II: A Manual for a Feminist Ethnography.- Chapter 5: What is Feminist Ethnography?.- Chapter 6: Situating Ourselves in the Problem.- Chapter 7: Negotiating the Interview.- Chapter 8: The Dialogic Application.- Part III: How to Destroy Educational Training: An Anti-manual.- Chapter 9: Accessing University.- Chapter 10: Undergraduate Training.- Chapter 11: Graduate Training.- Part IV: How to Destroy Careers: An Anti-manual.- Chapter 12: Labor Insertion.- Chapter 13: Professional Consolidation.- Chapter 14: Recurrent Violence.- Chapter 15: Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

Menara Guizardi holds a B.A. in Social Sciences and a postgraduate degree in Human Sciences and Regional Development from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (Brazil). She holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies and a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, both from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain). Between 2016 and 2020, she carried out her two post-doctoral projects in Social Anthropology with scholarships from the National University of San Martín and the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (both in Argentina). She is currently an adjunct researcher at the latter organization and an external researcher at the University of Tarapacá (Chile).

Herminia Gonzálvez holds a B.A. in Social Work from the University of Alicante (Spain) and a B.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Miguel Hernández University (Spain). She also holds an M.A. in Migration, Refuge, and Intercommunity Relations from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) and a PhD in Social Anthropology and Cultural Diversity from the University of Granada (Spain). She currently works as a professor at the Central University of Chile. Her main research topics are gender, kinship, social inequalities, migration, and the organization of care in the aging process.

Carolina Stefoni holds a B.A. in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, an M.A. in Cultural Studies and Sociology from the University of Birmingham (England), and a PhD in Sociology from the University Alberto Hurtado (Chile). She is a full professor at the University of Tarapacá (Chile), where she directs the PhD in Social Sciences. In addition, she is an associate researcher at the Center for the Study of Conflict and Social Cohesion (Chile). Her main research topics are migratory movements in Chile and Latin America, migration policy, gender, borders, and migration control.