Female Sociolinguists

[Amy Sheldon]

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Penny Eckert wrote:

> I agree with Miriam that this kind of thing ends up as a weird popularity
> contest or worse - now we know who happens to be in some people's radar
> today, and the more names that pile up the more glaring the omissions. But
> above all, I think that Emma's request has resulted in a nice object
> lesson in academic politics. The name request is at the heart of the old
> boy system - Harvard uses it to initiate searches, CASBS uses it to
> develop a list of potential fellows - and we know how badly (or how well,
> depending on your perspective) it works in those kinds of cases.

	To extend the above:  Would a more open selection process have
changed the list of contributors very much? How much follows from the
operative disciplinary hegemony?

Amy

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