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The Mind Has No Sex? - Women in the Origins of Modern Science (Paperback, Revised): Londa Schiebinger The Mind Has No Sex? - Women in the Origins of Modern Science (Paperback, Revised)
Londa Schiebinger
R1,484 Discovery Miles 14 840 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

As part of his attempt to secure a place for women in scientific culture, the Cartesian Francois Poullain de la Barre asserted as long ago as 1673 that "the mind has no sex?" In this rich and comprehensive history of women's contributions to the development of early modem science, Londa Schiebinger examines the shifting fortunes of male and female equality in the sphere of the intellect. Schiebinger counters the "great women" mode of history and calls attention to broader developments in scientific culture that have been obscured by time and changing circumstance. She also elucidates a larger issue: how gender structures knowledge and power.

It is often assumed that women were automatically excluded from participation in the scientific revolution of early modem Europe, but in fact powerful trends encouraged their involvement. Aristocratic women participated in the learned discourse of the Renaissance court and dominated the informal salons that proliferated in seventeenth-century Paris. In Germany, women of the artisan class pursued research in fields such as astronomy and entomology. These and other women fought to renegotiate gender boundaries within the newly established scientific academies in order to secure their place among the men of science.

But for women the promises of the Enlightenment were not to be fulfilled. Scientific and social upheavals not only left women on the sidelines but also brought about what the author calls the "scientific revolution in views of sexual difference?" While many aspects of the scientific revolution are well understood, what has not generally been recognized is that revolution came also from another quarter--the scientificunderstanding of biological sex and sexual temperament (what we today call gender). Illustrations of female skeletons of the ideal woman--with small skulls and large pelvises--portrayed female nature as a virtue in the private realm of hearth and home, but as a handicap in the world of science. At the same time, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women witnessed the erosion of their own spheres of influence. Midwifery and medical cookery were gradually subsumed into the newly profess ionalized medical sciences. Scientia, the ancient female personification of science, lost ground to a newer image of the male researcher, efficient and solitary--a development that reflected a deeper intellectual shift. By the late eighteenth century, a self-reinforcing system had emerged that rendered invisible the inequalities women suffered.

In reexamining the origins of modem science, Schiebinger unearths a forgotten heritage of women scientists and probes the cultural and historical forces that continue to shape the course of scientific scholarship and knowledge.

Unberechenbares Klima - Ursachen und Unsicherheiten des Klimawandels (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2022): Klaus Dethloff Unberechenbares Klima - Ursachen und Unsicherheiten des Klimawandels (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2022)
Klaus Dethloff
R761 Discovery Miles 7 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Die Veranderungen unseres Klimas sind allgegenwartig spurbar, das allgemeine Verstandnis der Prozesse dahinter aber mit Informationen uberschwemmt und vielfach gefiltert. Es fehlt ein tieferer Blick, um Klarheit uber die beteiligten Prozesse zu erhalten und nicht zuletzt eigene Handlungsraume zu erkennen. Dieses Buch prasentiert den ungeschminkten Stand des Wissens und Nichtwissens zu den komplexen Ursachen des Klimawandels auf der Basis von globalen Datensatzen und Modellsimulationen. Nicht erschrecken - Der Anspruch besteht darin zu vereinfachen, ohne zu verfalschen. Klimaanderungen werden nicht nur durch Strahlungsprozesse, sondern auch die nichtlineare Dynamik des Atmosphare-Meereis-Ozeansystems bestimmt. Die Dynamik des Planeten befindet sich nur teilweise in unserer Hand, denn neben dem menschlichen Einfluss durch Treibhausgase und Aerosole generiert das Klimasystem seine eigene interne Variabilitat. Die globale Reduktion des Ausstosses schadlicher Treibhausgase ist eine unerlassliche Massnahme in allen Strategien zur Bewaltigung des Klimawandels. Aber bleibt dessen Begrenzung ein unerfullter Wunsch? Ein Buch, das von einem international ausgewiesenem Experten in der Arktisforschung geschrieben wurde, und komplexe Sachverhalte unseres Klimasystems fur jeden interessierten Leser - den Naturwissenschaftler und den Laien - aufschlusselt. Und das mit dem klaren Ziel aufzuzeigen, dass der Klimawandel nicht aufgehalten, sondern maximal in dessen Auswirkung auf unsere Lebenswelt begrenzt werden kann.

Thessalien - Illyrien - Epirus - Korkyra, Nr.1-701 (German, Paperback): Hans Roland Baldus Thessalien - Illyrien - Epirus - Korkyra, Nr.1-701 (German, Paperback)
Hans Roland Baldus
R2,454 Discovery Miles 24 540 Out of stock

Im 12. Band der Reihe werden antike Pragungen aus den nordgriechischen Gebieten Thessalien, Illyrien, Epirus und Korkyra beschrieben und publiziert. Die Identifizierung und historische Einordnung der samtlich nach Gipsabguessen abgebildeten Muenzen erfolgte durch die international anerkannte Numismatikerin Katerini Liampi von der Universitat Ioannina Griechenland. Unter den Pragungen finden sich auch Exemplare des durch seine Kampfe gegen Rom beruehmten Konigs Pyrrhus von Epirus (Regierungszeit 297-272 v. Chr.). Dieser hatte wahrend seiner Feldzuege in Unteritalien auch Muenzen unter seinem Namen im sizilischen Syrakus schlagen lassen. Die vorgestellten Pragungen werden heute im Muenchner Muenzkabinett aufbewahrt, das zu den grossten offentlichen Muenzsammlungen der Welt gehort.

Residential Housing & Interiors (Hardcover, 4th): Clois E Kicklighter, Joan C Kicklighter Residential Housing & Interiors (Hardcover, 4th)
Clois E Kicklighter, Joan C Kicklighter
R2,257 Discovery Miles 22 570 Out of stock

Residential Housing & Interiors acquaints students with planning, building, decorating, and landscaping a home, and working in the housing industry.
- Chapters 21, 23, and 30 cover the practical aspects of choosing suitable housing.
- Each text chapter includes a list of Internet resources.
- Appendix includes: topographical, plumbing, electrical, and climate control symbols; common sizes of living room furniture, bedroom furniture, bathroom fixtures, and kitchen cabinets; common sizes of windows; and much more.

Science Navigator - CD-Rom (DOS) (Book): McGraw-Hill Companies Science Navigator - CD-Rom (DOS) (Book)
McGraw-Hill Companies
R9,316 Discovery Miles 93 160 Out of stock

This CD offers users instant access to information in 75 major fields of science and engineering. It features 8200 articles from the McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology, 3rd edition, and 104,300 terms from Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 5th edition.

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