Hierarchies
The Max Planck Society in Gender Trouble
By (author) Birgit Kolboske
Hardback (Published)
(October 2024)
ISBN: 9783525302590
6.34 x 9.25 inches
Price: $107.00
In stock
Were women structurally disadvantaged at the Max Planck Society?
The Max Planck Society (MPG), one of the most successful research institutions worldwide, serves as a prime example of the German science system, in which hierarchies and relations of dependency play a major role. This body stands center stage in the present book, which analyzes processes of socio-cultural and structural transformation at the MPG during the first fifty years of its existence-from the non-transparent interdependencies typical of informal networks to a modern research institution geared towards gender equality policy. Two women’s working worlds within this research organization are analyzed through a cultural history and history-of-science lens. One of them, science, was long closed to all but a tiny number of women. The other was the office, where most women in this context worked most of the time. What promoted female scientific careers at the MPG, what obstructed them, and what role did the Harnack Principle, the MPG’s own structural principle of the personality-centered organization of research, play in these processes?The book also foregrounds the negotiation of gender equality processes beginning in the late 1980s, which helped break down the traditional gender order and trigger a cultural shift at the Max Planck Society.
- By (author) Birgit Kolboske
Other Titles in this Series
Wissenschaft und Diplomatie
Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft im Feld der internationalen Politik (1945–2000)
Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft im Prozess der deutschen Vereinigung 1989–2002
Eine politische Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Geld – Macht – Wissenschaft
Finanzierung, Governance und Verwaltung der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 1945–2002
Sozialgeschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Personalentwicklung, Karrieren und Arbeitsbedingungen 1948–2005
Verboten, unvereinbar, geheim?
Militärische Forschung, Dual-Use-Problematik und Friedensinitiativen in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (1945–2005)
Hierarchien. Das Unbehagen der Geschlechter mit dem Harnack-Prinzip
Frauen in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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