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The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science Since 1660 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030789756)
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xPart 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 Gen钁ieve-Charlotte Darlus Thiroux D'Arconville and Gabrielle ﾉmilie 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 Soir馥 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 GtingenRenate 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. G疝dy
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 B
Author: Claire G. Jones
ISBN-10: 3030789756
ISBN-13: 9783030789756
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/03/2022
Pages: 658
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.09lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.38d
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 Gen钁ieve-Charlotte Darlus Thiroux D'Arconville and Gabrielle ﾉmilie 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 Soir馥 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 GtingenRenate 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. G疝dy
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 B
Author: Claire G. Jones
ISBN-10: 3030789756
ISBN-13: 9783030789756
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/03/2022
Pages: 658
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.09lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.38d
By Claire G. Jones
xClaire 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 Universit舩-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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