Using and Abusing Science: Science and Political Discourse from Burke's "French Revolution" to Obama's Science Fair (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443889452)

Véronique Molinari is Professor of British Studies at Grenoble Alpes University, France, where she teaches British History. Her research focuses on the women's movement in Edwardian and interwar Britain, as well as on women's participation in politics. She is co-editor (with Donna Spalding-Andreolle) of Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists (2011), and the author of several books and articles including "'Schools of their own' - The Ladies' Medical College and London School of Medicine for Women" (2011) and "Educating and Mobilizing the New Voter: Interwar Handbooks and Female Citizenship in Great-Britain, 1918-1931" (2014).

Cyril Besson is a Senior Lecturer in Scottish Studies at Grenoble Alpes University, France. A specialist of nineteenth-century Scottish literature, he has worked on the concepts of nation and nationhood, authority and the various modes of "naturalisation" of the arbitrariness of social and cultural constructs. He co-edited the issue of the electronic journal Representation (CEMRA) on "History and Political Discourse" with Véronique Molinari and the book Ville et environnement: regards croisés sur le monde postcolonial (2014) with André Dodeman.