Editors of all-male vols typically respond by naming women who declined. I understand the impulse, but the effect is to push the responsibility onto these women rather than accepting it as editor--something that deeply troubles me as someone who has edited a ton of volumes 2/8
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I know well how time-consuming and challenging it is to be inclusive when editing volumes. Likewise, I know well how one's initial conceptualization of a topic can be radically shifted in the process of inviting contributors. 3/8
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Inclusion of different perspectives (i.e., not just w/respect to gender but also specialization, institutional training, junior/senior, literary/material, etc.) can be challenging + frustrating in practice. But I've found it really does make for much better volumes in the end 4/8
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#BiblicalStudies are now accustomed to thinking about balancing Jewish + Christian perspectives, scholars w/different specialist training, &c, in a manner that would have been unthinkable in 19th/early20th centuries--and we know well how much this enriches scholarship 5/8Näytä tämä ketju -
Now it is just a matter of extending efforts also to different perspectives across other lines. Non-male scholarly voices (like Jewish scholars back in 19thC) have long been ignored & can excel in the same old research but can also bring different questions, models, &c. 6/8
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Inclusion is just as much an epistemological issue as an ethical one, but consequently it is also an opportunity. Even for those of us concerned w/equity, our framing of topics + habits of conceptualizing expertise are shaped by longstanding models of scholarship as male 7/8
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Scholars often quip that editing is thankless, but I feel it is an honor + responsibility--precisely b/c of potential to craft the sort of representation that never (not yet!) "naturally" arises w/in journals, & thereby model what a more inclusive scholarship might look like. 8/8
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In Egypt, Maat is a female god, and Hatshepsut was the best queen (or Pharaohs)
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