ISBN:
9780415253062
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (320 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Women in Science : A Social and Cultural History
DDC:
305.43/5
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Glossary; 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 c. 1815-1880; 7 Science comes of age: Male patriarchs and women serving science?
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Medicine, education and gender from c. 1902 to 1944 with a case study of Birmingham9 Asking questions of science: The significance of gender and education; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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