Sex and the Scientific Author: M. Vaerting and the Matilda Effect in Early Twentieth‐Century Germany.

The life and work of the German pedagogue, sociologist and gender researcher M. Vaerting (1884– 1977) are analysed, with special attention to Vaerting’s use of gendered pseudonyms in writings on sex and reproduction. As Mathilde, Mathias, Mathilde and Mathias, or just M., Vaerting experimented with...

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Published in:	Gender & History Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 490 - 511
Main Author:	Gliboff, Sander
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Jul2018
Subjects:	Vaerting, Mathilde, 1884-1977 Women scholars Sex discrimination in higher education Sex discrimination against women Anonyms & pseudonyms German history, 1871-1918 Weimar Republic, 1918-1933 Twentieth century Intellectual life Matilda effect Germany
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