Overview

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.

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Author:   Claire G. Jones ,  Alison E. Martin ,  Alexis Wolf
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   1.190kg
ISBN:  

9783030789725

ISBN 10:   3030789721
Pages:   658
Publication Date:   02 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

Reviews

“This is a remarkable book. … In this book, one gets an enormous amount of details and information, about the educational problems regarding women, as well as very complete details about the life of the women involved.” (Robert W. van der Waall, zbMATH 1530.01004, 2024) “The Handbook is impressive both in the range of topics it covers and in the number of perspectives it brings together. … the Handbook offers innovative frameworks and vocabularies for scholarly work on women in science. … The volume is an accessible, well-researched and necessary addition to the literature, and a firm foundation on which further scholarship should build.” (Grace Exley, The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 56 (4), December, 2023)

Author Information

Claire G. Jones is a Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. Her principal area of research is gender and science in the nineteenth century in Britain. She is author of Femininity, Mathematics and Science, 1880-1914 (2009) and co-editor of Women and Science: Special Issue of Notes and Records of the Royal Society (2015).  Alison E. Martin is Professor of British Studies at the Germersheim faculty of the Johannes Gutenberg Universität-Mainz, Germany, which specialises in Translation Studies and Interpreting. She has published widely on translation studies, travel literature, scientific writing and gender. Her most recent monograph is Nature Translated: Alexander von Humboldt’s Works in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Edinburgh University Press, 2018). Alexis Wolf is a Research Associate in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. Her research focuses on women's writing of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, including in the areas of medicine and antiquarianism. She is currently working on her first book, which examines manuscript circulation within women’s transnational networks in the Romantic period.

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