The Palgrave handbook of women and science since 1660
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The Palgrave handbook of women and science since 1660
（Palgrave handbooks）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2022
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Handbook of women and science since 1660
Women and science since 1660
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of core areas of investigation and theory relating to the history of women and science. Bringing together new research with syntheses of pivotal scholarship, the volume acknowledges and integrates history, theory and practice across a range of disciplines and periods. While the handbook's primary focus is on women's experiences, chapters also reflect more broadly on gender, including issues of femininity and masculinity as related to scientific practice and representation. Spanning the period from the birth of modern science in the late seventeenth century to current challenges facing women in STEM, it takes a thematic and comparative approach to unpack the central issues relating to women in science across different regions and cultures. Topics covered include scientific networks; institutions and archives; cultures of science; science communication; and access and diversity. With its breadth of coverage, this handbook will be the go-to resource for undergraduates taking courses on the history and philosophy of science and gender history, while at the same time providing the foundation for more advanced scholars to undertake further historical and theoretical investigation.
Table of Contents
Part I Introduction
1. Women in the History of Science: Frameworks, Themes and Contested PerspectivesClaire G. Jones, Alison E. Martin and Alexis Wolf
Part II Strategies and Networks
2. The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: Nature, Self-Knowing Matter, and the Dialogic UniverseBrandie R. Siegfried
3. Navigating Enlightenment Science: The Case of Marie Genevieve-Charlotte Darlus Thiroux D'Arconville and Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier De Breteuil and the Republic of LettersLeigh Whaley
4. 'A Valuable Gift': The Medical Life of Margaret Mason, Lady Mount CashellAlexis Wolf
5. Janet Taylor (1804-1870): Mathematical Instrument Maker and Teacher of NavigationJohn S. Croucher
6. Early Female Geologists: The Importance of Professional and Educational Societies during the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth CenturiesCynthia V. Burek
Part III Making Women Visible: Institutions, Archives, and Inclusion
7. Where are the Women? How Archives can Reveal Hidden Women in ScienceAnne Barrett
8. 'A Very Worthy Lady': Women Lecturing at the Royal Geographical Society, 1913 - C.1940Sarah L. Evans
9. Women at the Royal Society Soiree Before the Great WarClaire G. Jones
10. Career Paths Dependent and Supported: The Role of Women's Universities in Ensuring Access to STEM Education and Research Careers in JapanNaonori Kodate and Kashiko Kodate
11. Internationalism and Women Mathematicians at the University of GoettingenRenate Tobies
Part IV Cultures of Science
12. Astronomy, Education and the Herschel Family: From Caroline to ConstanceEmily Winterburn
13. Domestic Astronomy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesGabriella Bernardi
14. Darwin and the Feminists: Nineteenth-Century Debates about Female InferiorityAmanda M. Caleb
15. Women, Gender and Computing: The Social Shaping of a Technical Field from Ada Lovelace's Algorithm to Anita Borg's 'Systers'Corinna Schlombs
16. The Cultural Context of Gendered Science: IndiaCarol C. Mukhopadhyay
17. A Seat at the Table: Women and the Periodic SystemAnnette Lykknes and Brigitte Van Tiggelen
Part V Science Communication
18. Mediating Knowledge: Women Translating ScienceAlison E. Martin
19. Queen Lovisa Ulrika of Sweden (1720-1782): Philosophe and CollectorAnne E. Harbers and Andrea M. Galdy
20. Marianne North and Scientific IllustrationPhilip Kerrigan
21. The Cycle of Credit and Phatic Communication in Science: The Case of Catherine HenleyJordynn Jack
22. Rachel Carson: Scientist, Public Educator and EnvironmentalistRuth Watts
23. Representing Women Scientists in Science-Based Film and TelevisionAmy Chambers
Part VI Access, Diversity and Practice
24. Catalysts, Compilers and Expositors: Rethinking Women's Pivotal Contributions to Nineteenth Century 'Physical Sciences'Mary Orr
25. 'The Question is One of Extreme Difficulty': The Admission of Women to the British and Irish Medical Profession, C. 1850-1920Laura Kelly
26. The Work of British Women Mathematicians during the First World WarJune Barrow-Green and Tony Royle
27. More than Pioneers - How Women became Professional Engineers before the Mid-Twentieth CenturyNina Baker
28. Women and Surgery after the Great WarClaire Brock
29. Technology Users vs. Technology Inventors and Why We Should CareWendy M. Dubow
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