Women in Scholarly Publishing

Women in Scholarly Publishing explores the under-researched topic of gender and scholarly publishing. While often considered separately, the relationship between gender and scholarly publishing has been neglected. Bringing together experts across applied linguistics, this book brings to the fore the challenges and opportunities faced by female academics in both Anglophone and non-Anglophone contexts as they participate in the production and dissemination of knowledge.

Contributors show how female scholars’ production and dissemination of knowledge intersect with gendered structures and disciplinary cultures in complex ways. The key strands of work that this volume seeks to bring together include essentialism in gender studies and alternative perspectives on how gender should be viewed and studied in knowledge production and dissemination; the specific ways in which the labour and conditions surrounding scholarly publication are gendered or perceived as gendered; the examination of discourses, texts and genres from a gender perspective; and the continuing gendered and gendering impacts on career trajectories of women academics. While women’s barriers are documented across geopolitical contexts, the book also shows how norms, policies and practices can be challenged and alternative futures imagined.

The book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, institutional decision-makers, writing mentors, early-career scholars and graduate students in a variety of fields.

Anna Kristina Hultgren is Professor of Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at The Open University, UK. Her work has been published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language in Society, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, and others. Kristina serves on the editorial boards of Applied Linguistics, Journal of English-Medium Instruction, Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes, Journal of Applied Language Studies, and Routledge Studies in English-Medium Instruction.

Pejman Habibie is Assistant Professor of TESOL at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is also a founding co-editor of the Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes and the book series Routledge Studies in English for Research Publication Purposes. His research interests and scholarly publications focus on the geopolitics of knowledge construction and circulation, writing for scholarly publication and academic literacies. His work has been published in international journals such as The Annual Review of Applied Linguistics and The Journal of Second Language Writing, among others.