Thanks for Typing 1: Thanks to my wife: gender and politics in the academy

Have you ever thought about the contributions that the wives of academics have made to their husbands’ work, and how those contributions have been acknowledged?
In Episode 1 of Thanks for Typing, hosts Ros Edwards and Val Gillies look at the hashtag that gave the series its name. When it went viral in 2017, it shone a spotlight on the frequently hidden work of wives in social science knowledge production, and in particular in the postwar period.
Ros and Val are joined by the hashtag’s originator, Bruce Holsinger, an author and academic based at the University of Virginia. They’re also joined by Miriam David, a feminist educator at University College London, who has written about gender and the academy. They discuss how the hashtag came about and consider how and why it drew such attention. They go on to reflect on the unseen contributions of wives to their husbands’ academic work and the implications of that in the past and today.
The Thanks for Typing Podcast is part of Ros Edwards’ and Val Gillies’ research journey uncovering the hidden impact of social researchers’ wives. A six-episode podcast series, it is produced by Research Podcasts and supported by the Sociological Review Foundation.
This episode, launched on 19 March 2024, is the first of the series’ six episodes.
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