Women in Science: A Social and Cultural History

ISBN-13: 9780415253062 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 320 str.

Ruth Watts

Opis

The first book of its kind to provide a full and comprehensive historical grounding of the contemporary issues of gender and women in science. Women in Science includes a detailed survey of the history behind the popular subject and engages the reader with a theoretical and informed understanding with significant issues like science and race, gender and technology and masculinity. It moves beyond the historical work on women and science by avoiding focusing on individual women scientists.

Spis treści

1. Science, Gender and Education  2. From the Fifth Century CE to the Sixteenth: Learned Celibacy or Knowledgeable Housewifery  3. Dangerous Knowledge: Science, Gender and the Beginnings of Modernism  4. Education in Science and the Science of Education in the Long Eighteenth Century  5. Radical Networks in Education and Science in Britain from the Mid Eighteenth Century to c. 1815 6. An Older and a Newer World: Networks of Science  7. Science Comes of Age: Male Patriarchs and Women Serving Science?  8. Medicine, Education and Gender from c.1902–44 with a Case Study of Birmingham  9. Asking Questions of Science: The Significance of Gender and Education

O autorze

Ruth Watts is Professor of History of Education at the University ofBirmingham. Her research interests are in the history of education andgender and publications include Gender, Power and the Unitarians inEngland, 1760-1860.