The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science since 1660

ISBN-13: 9783030789756 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 658 str.

Claire G. Jones; Alison E. Martin; Alexis Wolf

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Part I Introduction

1. Women in the History of Science: Frameworks, Themes and Contested Perspectives

Claire 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 Universe

Brandie R. Siegfried

3. Navigating Enlightenment Science: The Case of Marie Genèvieve-Charlotte Darlus Thiroux D’Arconville and Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier De Breteuil and the Republic of Letters

Leigh Whaley

4. ‘A Valuable Gift’: The Medical Life of Margaret Mason, Lady Mount Cashell

Alexis Wolf

5. Janet Taylor (1804-1870): Mathematical Instrument Maker and Teacher of Navigation

John S. Croucher

6. Early Female Geologists: The Importance of Professional and Educational Societies during the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries

Cynthia V. Burek

Part III Making Women Visible: Institutions, Archives, and Inclusion

7. Where are the Women? How Archives can Reveal Hidden Women in Science

Anne Barrett

8. ‘A Very Worthy Lady’: Women Lecturing at the Royal Geographical Society, 1913 – C.1940

Sarah L. Evans

9. Women at the Royal Society Soirée Before the Great War

Claire G. Jones

10. Career Paths Dependent and Supported: The Role of Women’s Universities in Ensuring Access to STEM Education and Research Careers in Japan

Naonori Kodate and Kashiko Kodate

11. Internationalism and Women Mathematicians at the University of Göttingen

Renate Tobies 

Part IV Cultures of Science

12. Astronomy, Education and the Herschel Family: From Caroline to Constance

Emily Winterburn

13. Domestic Astronomy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Gabriella Bernardi

14. Darwin and the Feminists: Nineteenth-Century Debates about Female Inferiority

Amanda 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: India

Carol C. Mukhopadhyay

17. A Seat at the Table: Women and the Periodic System

Annette Lykknes and Brigitte Van Tiggelen

Part V Science Communication

18. Mediating Knowledge: Women Translating Science

Alison E. Martin

19. Queen Lovisa Ulrika of Sweden (1720-1782): Philosophe and Collector

Anne E. Harbers and Andrea M. Gáldy

20. Marianne North and Scientific Illustration

Philip Kerrigan

21. The Cycle of Credit and Phatic Communication in Science: The Case of Catherine Henley

Jordynn Jack

22. Rachel Carson: Scientist, Public Educator and Environmentalist

Ruth Watts

23. Representing Women Scientists in Science-Based Film and Television

Amy 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. 1850-1920

Laura Kelly

26. The Work of British Women Mathematicians during the First World War

June Barrow-Green and Tony Royle

27. More than Pioneers – How Women became Professional Engineers before the Mid-Twentieth Century

Nina Baker

28. Women and Surgery after the Great War

Claire Brock

29. Technology Users vs. Technology Inventors and Why We Should Care

Wendy M. Dubow

O autorze

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.