Marginalization in the Sciences: Gender, Class and Race


The University of Vienna, Austria; Department of Social Studies of Science


Upper-level course


Description:  Does it matter to be a woman or a man in the sciences? Does our social class and race-ethnicity background matter? In what ways do these categories interact with each other? In this course we critically examine the argument that gender, social class and race-ethnicity lead to processes of marginalization in the sciences. We start out to determine what we mean with these often used but hardly defined categories. We then engage with texts that show us how they become relevant in the sciences. After we have established this groundwork for our discussions we draw on political theories, feminist theories of science, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist and postmodern theories to grasp how marginalization works. This understanding will allow us to arrive at our final goal: to elaborate in what ways we can resist and counter marginalization and create sciences in which women, working-class people and racial minorities can thrive. 

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