Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Donald L. Opitz, Staffan Bergwik, Brigitte Van Tiggelen.
• Editors: Opitz, Donald L; Bergwik, Staffan; Tiggelen, Brigitte van
• Contents: Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Domesticity and the Historiography of Science; Part I: The Estate of Knowledge: Domestic Sites and Scientific Authority; 1 Botanizing at Badminton House: The Botanical Pursuits of Mary Somerset, First Duchess of Beaufort; 2 Gender and Space in Enlightenment Science: Madame Dupiéry's Scientific Work and Network; 3 Darwin's Home of Science and the Nature of Domesticity; 4 The Tensions of Homemade Science in the Work of Henderina Scott and Hertha Ayrton. Part II: Constructions of Domestic Science and Technology5 'My Daughters of Ceres': Domestications of Agricultural Science Education for Women; 6 Gender and the Domestication of Wireless Technology in 1920s Pulp Fiction; 7 Contemporary Homemade Meteorological Science: Co-constructing the Home and Weather-Climate Knowledges in the UK; Part III: Familial Science: Sustaining Knowledge across Generations and Distances; 8 Merchants, Scientists, and Artists: Scientific Families and Scientific Practice in Nineteenth-Century Greece. 9 Father, Son, and the Entrepreneurial Spirit: Otto Pettersson, Hans Pettersson, and the Early Twentieth-Century Inheritance of Oceanography10 The Laboratory Society: Science and the Family in Sweden, c.1900-1950; 11 Research Cooperation, Learning Processes, and Trust among Plant Scientists: Fictive Kinship, Academic Mobility, and Scientists' Careers; 12 Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Family in the Knowledge Economy; Part IV: Afterword; 13 Afterword: Science and the Domestic Sphere in the Longue Durée; Select Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Subjects: 303.483; Science -- Social aspects; Social History; Sociology/Marriage & Family; History; Modern/General; Social & cultural history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Gender studies, gender groups; Science -- Social aspects; History; History of Science; Social History; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging; Gender Studies; Modern History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137492746; 1137492740; 9781137492722; 1137492724; 9781137492739; 1137492732
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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