Article ID: CBB297564408

The imperative for inclusion: A gender analysis of genetics (2021)

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It has now been more than thirty years since Joan Wallach Scott (1986) argued that gender is a legitimate and necessary category of historical analysis that applies to all fields, including genetics. In the intervening years, a substantial body of work has appeared that adds women to the historiography of genetics. While this is a necessary component for including gender as a category of analysis in genetics, it is not sufficient. Gender analysis involves the broader goal of integrating gender into the interrogation of how social factors within research practices and institutional organization influence scientific work and knowledge production in genetics. This article argues for the imperative for inclusion—including both women and gender analysis—which, taken together, not only provide a more equitable and informative picture of the discipline's development, but also yield a historiography that more faithfully reflects the activity of doing science.

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Authors & Contributors
Williams, Cody Tyler
Allison Michelle Witucki
Dent, Rosanna
Peng Dai
Clark, William
Megan Piorko
Concepts
Science and gender
Science and society
History of science, as a discipline
Historiography
Genetics
History as a discipline; chronology; study of the past
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
17th century
Early modern
Places
United States
Mato Grosso (Brazil)
Southern states (U.S.)
England
Netherlands
Sweden
Institutions
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
Annales school
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