Bias and the Politicization of Gender Studies Scholarship
Bias and the Politicization of Gender Studies Scholarship

Summary/Abstract: In this essay we argue that the inferior epistemic status of gender studies in the epistemic cultures of higher education have been contributing to the vilification of gender studies scholars and created a fertile ground for the backlash the scholarship has been experiencing. On the one hand there is the problematic epistemic status of gender studies (which we will further elaborate), and on the other hand, the affective study of the epistemic communities and cultures has pointed to the positionality of gender studies scholars as ‘affective aliens’. In order to help advance gender studies scholarship and prevent its demise by the hands of its political adversaries, we propose to look at the complex practices of academic epistemic communities, which may instead help build solidarities across different fields.

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