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What can critical femininity offer reviewing? A case for reviewing with empathy
Author(s) -
Whiley Lilith A.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
gender, work and organization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.159
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1468-0432
pISSN - 0968-6673
DOI - 10.1111/gwao.12640
Subject(s) - femininity , empathy , hegemony , masculinity , psychology , emotionality , sociology , hegemonic masculinity , quality (philosophy) , social psychology , gender studies , epistemology , political science , law , philosophy , politics
In academia, hegemonic patriarchal norms equate scientific quality with masculinity, and reviewing has followed in this tradition often channeling an angry army general instead of an empathetic peer invested in supporting the development of a manuscript. Indeed, femininity and emotionality are ostracized in favor of “rational” and “scholarly” (masculine) “science.” What can, then, critical femininity offer reviewing? In this piece, I put a case forward for reviewing with empathy.