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Gender, editorship and gatekeeping in the field of linguistics: an empirical study of academic handbooks from the 1980s to the 2020s
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Abstract
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| Scholars in various academic disciplines engage in critical examinations of the role gender plays in academic knowledge production. One frequently foregrounded site of potential gendered gatekeeping is editorial positions for academic handbooks, as editors play a paramount role in determining the direction of the discipline, as well as whose research is invited and published. In this chapter, we empirically investigate editorship by gender in the field of linguistics based on a corpus of 463 handbooks in linguistics published by six top-tier academic publishers between 1980 and the early 2020s. The (co)editors per handbook are categorized according to gender and so are the authors of handbooks chapters of two subdisciplines which are expected to reflect different gender balances. We present a fine-grained statistical analysis of gender (in)equality in this corpus. In particular, we examine to which extent the probability of female author-/editorship in these linguistic handbooks depends on the year of publication, the linguistic discipline and the size and gender composition of the editorial team. In our conclusion, we comment on whether the results indicate (1) diachronic changes in gender (in)equality in editorship and (2) editorial gatekeeping along gender lines. |
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Language
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English
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Source (book)
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Women in scholarly publishing: a gender perspective / Hultgren, A. K. [edit.]; Habibie, P. [edit.]
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Publication
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Routledge
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2024
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ISBN
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978-1-003-19358-6
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Volume/pages
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p. 154-172
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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