ISBN:
9781137492722
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (312 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The history of the modern sciences has long overlooked the significance of domesticity as a physical, social, and symbolic force in the shaping of knowledge production. This book provides a welcome reorientation to our understanding of the making of the modern sciences globally by emphasizing the centrality of domesticity in diverse scientific enterprises
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Domesticity and the Historiography of Science; Part I: The Estate of Knowledge: Domestic Sites and Scientific Authority; 1 Botanizing at Badminton House: The Botanical Pursuits of Mary Somerset, First Duchess of Beaufort; 2 Gender and Space in Enlightenment Science: Madame Dupiéry's Scientific Work and Network; 3 Darwin's Home of Science and the Nature of Domesticity; 4 The Tensions of Homemade Science in the Work of Henderina Scott and Hertha Ayrton
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II: Constructions of Domestic Science and Technology5 'My Daughters of Ceres': Domestications of Agricultural Science Education for Women; 6 Gender and the Domestication of Wireless Technology in 1920s Pulp Fiction; 7 Contemporary Homemade Meteorological Science: Co-constructing the Home and Weather-Climate Knowledges in the UK; Part III: Familial Science: Sustaining Knowledge across Generations and Distances; 8 Merchants, Scientists, and Artists: Scientific Families and Scientific Practice in Nineteenth-Century Greece
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Father, Son, and the Entrepreneurial Spirit: Otto Pettersson, Hans Pettersson, and the Early Twentieth-Century Inheritance of Oceanography10 The Laboratory Society: Science and the Family in Sweden, c.1900-1950; 11 Research Cooperation, Learning Processes, and Trust among Plant Scientists: Fictive Kinship, Academic Mobility, and Scientists' Careers; 12 Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Family in the Knowledge Economy; Part IV: Afterword; 13 Afterword: Science and the Domestic Sphere in the Longue Durée; Select Bibliography; Index
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