“You will never make it, you are too pretty:” Voices of women researchers in communication
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https://doi.org/10.12795/IC.2022.I19.18Keywords:
Women, communication, in-depth interviews, gender, intellectual history, critical epistemologiesAbstract
Communication studies have been constructed mainly through masculinized voices, which has erased the figures of women academics in the field. This paper tries to remedy this through 8 in-depth interviews to prominent female researchers from the second generation. Subjectivity allows us to recover and reconstruct the field through some narratives that have remained silenced or ignored, such as inequality, sexual harassment, lack of legitimacy, or different styles of leadership.
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