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Performing Masculinity: Considering Gender in Doctoral Student Socialization
- The Journal of Higher Education
- The Ohio State University Press
- Volume 82, Number 2, March/April 2011
- pp. 187-216
- 10.1353/jhe.2011.0007
- Article
- Additional Information
This article suggests that doctoral student socialization is a gendered process. Through a qualitative case study of engineering students in one department, the author considers how various norms and practices, including competition and hierarchy along with overt objectification of women, point to the masculine nature of the discipline.