Remember #thanksfortyping!
I'm reminded of the #thanksfortyping hashtag on Twitter about a decade ago, which was stunning: a collection of examples of men thanking their (un-named) wives for typing their manuscripts!
(Of course the wives' cooking, laundry, cleaning, etc. is entirely unacknowledged 😐)
Oh how I would love to visit #thanksfortyping
2nd March - Patricia Cohen, who was married to Jacob Cohen of Cohen's d fame (it is famous, promise).
She was a psychology researcher in her own right, but his most famous paper (well, at least according to me) has this footnote. #thanksfortyping
communication with the dead). It sounds like she had a lot to say on the topics of the books but was also expected to run the household and smooth over clashes between the diva personalities of the Jameses. #thanksfortyping
muse.jhu.edu/article/395592
Then I did a thread about un-acknowledged women of science (and I think I threw in a few academics who weren't scientists). #thanksfortyping
x.com/wontsomeonet...
as if all these slow, often tedious things were not carefully honed skills, as if they took no crucial part in the production of ideas, as if they didn’t really count.
#thanksfortyping
Katie Kadue's Domestic Georgic (UChicago Press, 2021) also has a ch. discussing the #thanksfortyping collection posted by Holsinger &gives even more ludicrous examples, including ones where male scholar's unnamed wife was designated as deserving "coauthor" but of course never named as the coauthor.
#thanksfortyping, 1500s style.
I'm enjoying @minouette.bsky.social's #artAdventCalendar and learning a bunch of science history I had totally missed!
In its final episodes, Ros Edwards and Val Gillies explore the figure of the “academic wife” in the modern university, and what has - or hasn’t - changed for women in academia.
🎧 Discover more and listen via our blog: researchpodcasts.co.uk/podcast-of-t...
#PodcastOfTheMonth #ThanksForTyping
It’s at times like these that I recommend everyone read about #Thanksfortyping, and quietly scream at the unrecognised labour of women: www.npr.org/2017/03/30/5...
Through diaries, letters and manuscripts, the podcast reveals how gender and class determined whose work was remembered — and whose was left out of the record.
🎧 Read more and listen via our blog: researchpodcasts.co.uk/podcast-of-t...
#PodcastOfTheMonth #ThanksForTyping #WomenInResearch
In Thanks for Typing, Ros Edwards and Val Gillies uncover these forgotten histories and ask what they reveal about gender and recognition - then and now.
🎧 Read more and listen via our blog: researchpodcasts.co.uk/podcast-of-t...
#ThanksForTyping #AcademicHistory #PodcastOfTheMonth
From hashtag to history
The story of Thanks for Typing began with the viral #ThanksForTyping hashtag-a call to recognise wives’ invisible labour in academic life.
From typing manuscripts to conducting fieldwork, these women made crucial but uncredited contributions to their husbands’ research.
Supported by the Sociological Review Foundation, the six-part series explores gender, labour, and recognition in academia.
👉 Read more and listen via our blog: researchpodcasts.co.uk/podcast-of-t...
#PodcastOfTheMonth #ThanksForTyping #ResearchPodcasts
My first thought seeing this headline was ‘Ah! Someone needs to go read Latour & Woolgar’s Laboratory Life about how scientists are manic writers’, but in truth, the job of in-house writer for a PI is nothing new, it just used to be called “professor’s wife”.
(in-house, indeed…)
#Thanksfortyping
I am currently working on a potential article about a group of men writing about how their (male) mentor's wife and daughters didn't understand his work, and there is definitely a tangent on #ThanksForTyping and the like.
#Thanksfortyping: The making of Ted Hughes
open.substack.com/pub/karenchr...
This post reminds me of #ThanksForTyping: www.npr.org/2017/03/30/5...
It was a pleasure to work @TheSocReview on the #ThanksforTyping podcast last year
It uncovers the largely invisible contribution of social researchers wives to studies that laid the foundations of modern sociology. A really interesting listen
Listen here
… listen to our podcast #ThanksForTyping, where we chat with people with expertise in sociology, education, history, politics, literature and archiving, about wives’ hidden contributions to the production of knowledge, and also … 2/6
thanksfortyping.buzzsprout.com
Screenshot of https://x.com/bruceholsinger/status/845637778251677697
When Twitter was still useful: @rosedwards.bsky.social and Val Gillies for pointing to #ThanksForTyping, see their paper on "the wives of major sociological figures in the establishment of the men’s reputations and the disciplinary enterprise of sociology". tidsskrift.dk/Serendipitie...
#ThanksforTyping is a collaborative project with @sociologicalreview.bsky.social
You can listen to @rosedwards.bsky.social and Val Gillies explore the unseen contributions made by academics' wives to #Sociology now.
This was that big #thanksfortyping thread on Twitter back in the day
Søren's nails look the perfect length for typing? #thanksfortyping
Peggy Nelson “cheerfully and competently typed the manuscript when the writing was done” #ThanksforTyping
@samhalvorsen.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
#ICYMI: Slivers and footnotes: how has the sociology of the present been shaped by past contributions by wives to the discipline?
Val Gillies and I talk to Lebogang Mokwena and John Goodwin in #ThanksforTyping #podcast Episode 5
supported by @sociologicalreview.bsky.social
Listen: buff.ly/4blSBUm
#ICYMI from @sociologicalreview.bsky.social: “Women's contributions to scholarship are consistently underrated; they’re still seen as wives & mothers.”
Historian Selina Todd joins Ros Edwards. & Val Gillies in Ep4 #ThanksforTyping, Questions of Class
buff.ly/48VptkF