Klicktipp: Auto/Biography and Gender (Cluster of the „European Journal of Life Writing“)

The European Journal of Life Writing (EJLW), Vol. 11 (2022) (Web)

The European Journal of Life Writing was first published in 2011. It is an interdisciplinary open access journal, published by the European section of the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) Europe.

The EJLW aims to provide a forum for work in the field of all forms of life narratives, with contributions ranging from conceptual to practical and creative work. Read more … (Web).

Articles in the Cluster „When Does the Genius do the Chores? Knowledge, Auto/Biography and Gender“

Guest Editors: Kirsti Niskanen (Stockholm Univ.), Johanna Gehmacher (Univ. of Vienna), and Katharina Prager (Wienbibliothek im Rathaus)

  • Johanna Gehmacher, Kirsti Niskanen, and Katharina Prager: Introduction: Knowledge Making, Everyday Life, and Gendered Scientific/Scholarly Personae (Web)
  • Donald L. Opitz: Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, Country House Science, and Personae for British Women in Science at the turn of the Twentieth Century (Web)
  • Kirsti Niskanen: A life in science – marriage as an epistemic relationship and the joint scientific persona of Astri and John Runnström (Web)
  • Johanna Gehmacher: Im/possible Careers. Gendered Perspectives on Scholarly Personae around 1900 (Web)
  • Christopher Burke and Günther Sandner: Marie Reidemeister and Otto Neurath: interwoven lives and work (Web)
  • Katharina Prager: Editing a Scholarly Persona in the New Field of Women’s History – Gerda Lerner’s Integrations and Taboos (Web)