SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Invisibility, White Fathers, Harriet Martineau
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Excerpt from: patricia madoo lengermann & jill niebrugge-brantley. The women founders: sociolog and social theory, 1830-1930. Rising out of sociology discipline"s power arrangements. Reflects constant ongoing conflict between exclusionary and inclusionary values & practices. Written out: suggest being seen to have a presence then being erased. Argue case of erasure not invisibility: for the 15 female sociologists examined in article. Identified themselves as sociologists: reconized as such by contemporaries. Women pioneers in candian sociology: the effects of a politics of gender and a politics of knowledge. Published since 1991 - either canadian or us origin but canadianized". Sex roles rigidly defined risk social disapproval for breaking out of social expectations, Lack of opportunity outside household prevented most from obtaining higher education. Most women no education beyond basic reading/writing many do not even have that. Those who do make a mark in early years come from unusual backgrounds. Born into wealty english family; supported herself from her journalistic writings.
