Papers by Anne Katrine Gjerløff
The aim of the workshop is to build a bridge between research on the situation of women in mathem... more The aim of the workshop is to build a bridge between research on the situation of women in mathematics at the beginning of coeducative studies and the current circumstances in academia. The issue of women in mathematics has been a recent political and social hot topic in the mathematical community. As thematic foci we place a double comparison: besides shedding light on differences and similarities in several European countries, we complete this investigation by comparing the developments of women studies from the beginnings. This shall lead to new results on tradition and suggest improvements on the present situation.
A. K. Gjerløff og T. V. Jensen Svin – kvalitet og kontrol. (Pigs – quality and control). This art... more A. K. Gjerløff og T. V. Jensen Svin – kvalitet og kontrol. (Pigs – quality and control). This article describes control measures and standardization processes in Danish pork production around 1900. The aim of the production was to create The Good Meat by rationalizing and standardising the body of the pig. Concomitant with this, theories about hygiene and microorganisms influenced veterinarian science, and professional meat control was gradually introduced. A historical analysis of the health and quality control of the slaughterhouses shows how demands about the meat together with economic and political agendas determined the character of the pig's body. Focus was on the thickness and qualities of fat, but rather based on economic than nutritional incentives. So ideals about the good pork were developed with a standardized presence of fat and absence of disease. These ideals were continued and can be found again in later body ideals – animal as well as human.
Kuml, 2001
The silence of the artefacts?The traditional division between archaeology and history is created ... more The silence of the artefacts?The traditional division between archaeology and history is created by the sources of the disciplines. Archaeology is normally defined by the material sources – the artefacts – and history by the focus on written sources. The article gives an introduction to the changing conception of artefacts and to the historians’ and archaeologists’ relation to the material sources.In the 18th century,the collection and description of artefacts was the main goal for the scholars, or antiquarians (fig. 1). In the second half of the century it became common to use the ancient monuments and artefacts in art and in complex combinations as national monuments and landscape gardens (fig. 3-6). The function of the monuments was to emphasise the antiquity of the royal power and the king’s right and relationship to the nation. In the 19th century art became more romantic – as did the interpretations of the artefacts. Now the Danish people and the ”true Danish spirit” made the ...
Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences, 2020
This chapter is based on interviews with four women mathematicians who made a research career in ... more This chapter is based on interviews with four women mathematicians who made a research career in mathematics in Denmark from the mid-twentieth century on. Through semi-structured research interviews, we try to capture and pass on glimpses of strategies and experiences in their lives. The four interviewees represent the very few women who achieved faculty positions in a male-dominated field at the universities in Denmark. Their personal stories, in addition to being admirable examples of academic achievement, become stories of how they navigated and succeeded in a society without apparent or fixed solutions for ambitious working women and mothers-and of how they later in life reflected on their choices and options. Their stories are both about women receiving an atypical education in a male-dominated field and about pursuing and succeeding in having a career and a family during a period of change in social values and possibilities for women. In the chapter, we focus on their stories about school life, on the milieu at the universities during their studies, their career choices, gender biases, and on their descriptions of family life and relationships. We coin the concept of "implicit girl," which was revealed in the interviews, a girl who is created implicitly in our educational system and thus situated in the culture of our society at large.
Historisk Tidsskrift, 2013
Danish Archaeology and History in the Nineteenth CenturyThe present study begins with a number of... more Danish Archaeology and History in the Nineteenth CenturyThe present study begins with a number of theoretical considerations on the differences between archaeology and historical research, arriving at the position that the frequently postulated difference in the nature of written and material sources is untenable from the traditional viewpoint of source as remnant and report. Nor is it at all tenable from a postmodern conception of source. Moreover, the archaeologist’s and the historian's procedures and methodological problems are so similar that the separation of the disciplines can only be explained in terms of the history of science.An analysis of central historical and archaeological studies from the nineteenth century shows how both disciplines changed character at the beginning of the century within the common context of studies dealing with and concomitantly dependent on Old Norse writings.Within the framework of The Commission for Antiquarian Artifacts and the Aarboger f...
Historisk Tidsskrift, 2004
Historisk Tidsskrift, 2004
Historisk Tidsskrift, 2002
This article points out central historical themes in the debates and arguments given by the direc... more This article points out central historical themes in the debates and arguments given by the directors of Copenhagen Zoo for the zoo as an alternative to nature. When Copenhagen Zoo was founded in 1859, its purpose was divided equally between entertainment, enlightenment and symbolizing the glory of the Danish capital. During this period though, it also became possible for the zoo to stage itself as a kinder place for animals than “real” nature. In the early 20th century, the zoo attracted attention from animal rights movements, wherefore the debates came to be structured around two radically different perceptions of nature. The article takes its outset in the arguments formulated by the three successive directors: Julius Schiøtt, Waldemar Dreyer and Theodor Alving.
Historisk Tidsskrift, 2013
Historisk Tidsskrift, 2013
Kuml, 2002
A History of ArchaeologyReviews en blocTaking the reviews of a number of publications on the hist... more A History of ArchaeologyReviews en blocTaking the reviews of a number of publications on the history of archaeology from Gothenburg University as the starting point, new trends within the history of archaeology and the humanities in general are discussed. Importance is now attached to a contextual concept of the humanities and on a rehabilitation of the importance of the individual, especially in the works of Åsa Gillberg. With a Foucault-inspired approach, Ola W. Jensen is dealing with the connection between a Christian approach to history and the attitude to prehistory and the artifacts in the time until 1700. Anders Gustafsson, on the basis of an analysis of conprehensive publications on the history of archaeology, discusses the self-concept of archaeology and arrives at the conclusion that the history of archaeology is not history, but more exactly meta-archaeology. The article ends with the wish that the Danish history of archaeology will reach the high degree of publication an...
Slagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie, 1970
Fra aber i anekdoter til katte i kasser – Evolutionsteoriens rolle i dyrepsykologiens udvikling
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