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History of Women in the Sciences - Readings from Isis (Hardcover, New)
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History of Women in the Sciences - Readings from Isis (Hardcover, New)
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Why is it that some women have created successful careers in
science, when historically there have been so many barriers that
exclude women from engaging in scientific work? At last, here is a
comparative history that illuminates some of the patterns that have
emerged in the history of women in science.
This book features some of the most influential and pioneering
studies of women in the sciences, with a special focus on patterns
of education, access, barriers, and opportunities for women's work
in science. Spanning the 17th through the 20th centuries, the book
demonstrates the meaning and power of gender experienced by women
in the sciences.
Individual chapters focus on exceptional women whose unusual
initiativee and particular circumstance led them to engage in
science: Laura Bassi, Nettie Stevens, Maria Winkelmann, and others.
Chapters on women's access to science discuss collaboration with
family members in the domestic sphere, the impact of primers and
popular science writing, and formal education in public schools and
advanced research institutions. There are examinations of the
reasons for clusters of women working in "female friendly" sciences
such as botany and physiology in the 19th century and astronomy in
the U.S. during the early 20th century.
This important and useful book provides a thoughtful and detailed
overview for scholars and students in the history of science, as
well as for feminist historians, scientists, and others who who
want a comparative and historical analysis of women in the
sciences.
Contributors include Janet Browne, Paula Findlen, Peggy Aldrich
Kidwell, Ann Hibner Koblitz, M. Susan Lindee, Carolyn Merchant,
Margaret W. Rossiter, Londa Schiebinger, Nancy Leys Stepan, and
Deborah Jean Warner.
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