Quantitative Analysis of Gendered Assumptions in a Nineteenth-Century Women’s Encyclopedia
- This paper quantifies textual patterns relating to gendered assumptions in a fairly unique text, an entire “women’s encyclopedia” from 1830’s Germany, which at 10 volumes and 1,461,000 word tokens was of comparable size to contemporary general encyclopedias, but written and marketed for a female audience. We perform experiments on classifying gender of biographical entries and querying a specific textual feature, calendar dates, with context from comparison 19th-20th century encyclopedias from the EncycNet corpus.
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| Author: | Eric KetzanORCiDGND, Thora HagenORCiD, Fotis JannidisORCiDGND, Andreas WittORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-130938 |
| URL: | ttps://dh2022.adho.org/ |
| Parent Title (English): | "Responding to Asian Diversity". DH2022. Digital Humanities 2022. Conference Abstracts. July 25-29, 2022. Online. Tokyo, Japan. The University of Tokyo |
| Publisher: | DH2022 Local Organizing Committee |
| Place of publication: | Tokyo |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2025/04/02 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | women's encyclopedia EncycNet; gendered assumptions |
| GND Keyword: | Geschlechterforschung; Korpus <Linguistik>; Quantitative Analyse; Textlinguistik |
| First Page: | 270 |
| Last Page: | 273 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch / 430 Deutsch |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| BDSL-Classification: | Textwissenschaft |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Textlinguistik / Schriftsprache |
| Program areas: | Digitale Sprachwissenschaft |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |