Hierarchies: The Max Planck Society in Gender Trouble

Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Body
1. Introduction
	1.1 Living and laboring for scientific research
		1.1.1 A women’s and gender history of the Max Planck Society
		1.1.2 Science as a way of life
	1.2 The book’s structure and key issues
		1.2.1 State of research
		1.2.2 Sources
		1.2.3 Language
2. In the front office: girls, machines, and methods
	2.1 Hierarchy in the front office
		2.1.1 Gender hierarchies
		2.1.2 The typewriter—approaching a job title
	2.2 Monotony, no glamour attached
		2.2.1 The rise of office work
		2.2.2 Feminization and deprofessionalization
	2.3 Programmed Inequality? When computers were still women
		2.3.1 Automation and digital revolution
		2.3.2 “When Computers Were Women”
		2.3.3 Gendering the Computer
	2.4 Doing Office
		2.4.1 Material practices in the front office
		2.4.2 On resistance to monotony and dexterity
	2.5 Imaginaries of the front office
		2.5.1 Requirements
		2.5.2 In the shadow
	2.6 In the front office of the Max Planck Society
		2.6.1 In the front office
		2.6.2 In the President’s Office
		2.6.3 Job advertisements at the MPG
		2.6.4 Follow the money
		2.6.5 Managing rather than supporting science
	2.7 Interim conclusion and a look at how things stand
		2.7.1 A family business
		2.7.2 “Third Space”
		2.7.3 Metamorphosis
3. From the “brotherhood of scholars” to the “sisterhood of science.” Continuities and ruptures
	3.1 Introduction
		3.1.1 Key issues and structure of the chapter
		3.1.2 Intersectionality—criteria of exclusion and influencing factors
	3.2 Continuities and ruptures
		3.2.1 From restoration to transformation: no scientific miracle for women academics
		3.2.2 Structure and hierarchy
	3.3 Scientific biography
		3.3.1 At the fraught interstices of factuality and fictionality
		3.3.2 Amazons or Ornaments?
		3.3.3 Scientific Members of the Max Planck Society
	3.4 Women Scientific Members of the MPG—a biographical dossier
		3.4.1 Isolde Hausser, physicist
		3.4.2 Lise Meitner, physicist
		3.4.3 Elisabeth Schiemann, geneticist
		3.4.4 Anneliese Maier, historian of science
		3.4.5 Anne-Marie Staub, biochemist
		3.4.6 Else Knake, physician and cell researcher
		3.4.7 Birgit Vennesland, biochemist
		3.4.8 Margot Becke-Goehring, chemist
		3.4.9 Eleonore Trefftz, mathematician and physicist
		3.4.10 Renate Mayntz, sociologist
		3.4.11 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, biologist and biochemist
		3.4.12 Anne Cutler, psycholinguist
		3.4.13 Angela D. Friederici, neuropsychologist
		3.4.14 Lorraine Daston, historian of science
		3.4.15 Interview with Angela Friederici and Lorraine Daston
	3.5 From the “Brotherhood of Scholars” to the “Sisterhood of Science”?
		3.5.1 Opportunity missed: The awarding of the Nobel Prize in 1945
		3.5.2 The Harnack Principle in gender trouble
	3.6 Twilight of the gods?
		3.6.1 Epistemic hierarchies: gender, knowledge, and power
		3.6.2 “Sisterhood of Science”?
		3.6.3 Ragnarök
4. Toward equal opportunities at the Max Planck Society. A bumpy start
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Social historical and science policy context
		4.2.1 Abandon all hope?
		4.2.2 The legal-historical background
		4.2.3 Strategic-conceptual contextualization
		4.2.4 Socio-historical change
		4.2.5 The science policy context of West German gender equality policies
		4.2.6 The impact on the Max Planck Society
	4.3 Toward equal opportunities (1988–1998)
		4.3.1 The context of actor levels
		4.3.2 Facts and figures: “The situation of women at the MPG”
		4.3.3 Taking stock: the General Works Council, the Women’s Committee, and the Munz study
		4.3.4 Evaluation
		4.3.5 The Recommendations of the Scientific Council and the Women Scientists’ Committee
		4.3.6 The “Career Paths of Women Scientists at the Max Planck Society”
	4.4 Equality measures at the MPG
		4.4.1 The three “pillars” of the MPG’s gender equality policy
		4.4.2 The MPG Senate resolution
		4.4.3 MPG-specific adaptations to the Second Equality Act
		4.4.4 The “General Works Agreement on Gender Equality”
		4.4.5 The Framework for the Advancement of Women
		4.4.6 The C3 Special Program for the Advancement of Women
	4.5 Impact of equality measures
		4.5.1 “Research around the clock”: necessity or ideology?
		4.5.2 Significance and impact of the Framework for the Advancement of Women
		4.5.3 Special programs—setting the agenda for equality?
		4.5.4 Analysis of the employment situation and appointment practices in 1998
		4.5.5 “If you don’t want a quota, you must want women”
	4.6 Upshot
5. Conclusion
	5.1 Quintessence
	5.2 Outlook
6. Acknowledgments
7. Appendix
	7.1 Chronicle of key steps toward equality
	7.2 “Ode to Women” (Frauenlob)
8. Abbreviations
9. List of figures and tables
	9.1 Figures
	9.2 Diagrams
	9.3 Tables
10. Bibliography and sources
	10.1 Sources
	10.2 Bibliography
11. Index of Persons