Amy Diehl, Ph.D.Mansplaining trains women to limit and doubt themselves at the same time that it "exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence -Rebecca Solnit
Excellent article on mansplaining by historian Charlotte Lydia Riley that resonates in every field.
https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526174703/9781526174703.00009.xml
Reflection – Male historians explain things to me
Charlotte Riley explores the patriarchal cultures of expertise, evaluation, and promotion that deform the work of historians today. Gendered patterns of harassment and bullying represent one extreme of more pervasive forms including interpersonal interactions within the conference, seminar room or lecture theatre, and department meeting, conventions of citation and acknowledgement, and decisions about research funding, appointments, and promotion. Scholarly or pedagogic styles are intensely gendered, in ways that reward some – usually white men – and disadvantage others. The cliched protest ‘not all men’ obfuscates the distinctions between individual responsibility and structural privileges from which all men derive benefit. Expertise, authority, professionalism – those identities to which historians lay claim and on which working lives rely – are embedded in deep-rooted cultures of masculinity
Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD
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