Agnotology, Gender, and Engineering: An Emergent Typology. (4th March 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Beddoes, Kacey
• Is Part Of: Social epistemology. Volume 33:Number 2(2019)
• Page Start: 124
• Page End: 136
• Publication Date: 2019-03-04
• Subjects: Agnotology -- engineering -- epistemologies of ignorance -- gender; Social epistemology -- Periodicals; 121
• DOI: 10.1080/02691728.2018.1564085
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0269-1728

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article explores agnotology and ways of not knowing in the context of gender in engineering. It presents an empirically-emergent, three-part typology of ways of not knowing about gender based on interviews with engineering professors, and contributes to the growing body of scholarship on agnotology. Just as knowledge is inseparable from issues of power, so too are areas of non-knowledge, and it is important to understand how, and to what ends, non-knowing is produced. This analysis of the social construction of ignorance around gender in engineering contributes new insights to feminist STS scholarship, as well as agnotology research.