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Record Nr.

UNINA9910729791303321

Titolo

Challenging bias against women academics in religion / / Colleen D. Hartung, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Illinois : , : Atla Open Press, , 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvii, 256 pages)

Disciplina

201.7

Soggetti

Discrimination - Religious aspects

Equality - Religious aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The second volume in the Women in Religion series, Challenging Bias Against Women Academics in Religion presents biographies about women in academia who study, research, and teach about the world's religious and spiritual traditions. It addresses the question of why so many women academics, who are themselves producers of secondary sources, are absent as biographical subjects in secondary literature generally and on digital knowledge platforms specifically. Authors variously challenge the exclusionary assumptions that underlie systemic bias in the production of secondary and tertiary sources about women. This critical engagement disrupts sourcing and writing conventions that support and perpetuate bias and creates the opportunity for more expansive and inclusive biographical narratives about women.