{"id":70118,"date":"2017-03-27T06:07:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T11:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=70118"},"modified":"2017-03-27T06:07:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T11:07:20","slug":"thanksfortyping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2017\/03\/27\/thanksfortyping\/","title":{"rendered":"#ThanksForTyping – Notes of Gratitude and the History of Women’s Anonymity in Knowledge Production"},"content":{"rendered":"

Knowledge production is a collective endeavor. Individuals get named as authors of studies and on the covers of books and journal articles. But little knowledge is produced in such a vacuum that it can actually be attributed to only<\/em> those whose names are associated with the final product. Bruce Holsinger<\/a>, a literary scholar at the University of Virginia, came up with an interesting way of calling attention to some of women’s invisible labor in this process–typing their husbands’ manuscripts.<\/p>\n

Holsinger noted a collection of notes written by husbands to their wives thanking them for typing the entirety of their manuscripts (dissertations, books, articles, etc.), but not actually explicitly naming them in the acknowledgement. It started with five tweets and a hashtag: #ThanksForTyping<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A peek at an archive of women’s academic labor: wives thanked for typing their husbands’ manuscripts. 1\/5 #ThanksForTyping<\/a> @TheMedievalDrK<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/yAf03lsweg<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Bruce Holsinger (@bruceholsinger) March 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n