The Palgrave handbook of women and science since 1660. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of women and science since 1660; Women and science since 1660
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Claire G. Jones, Alison E. Martin, Alexis Wolf.
• Editors: Jones, Claire G (Claire Gwen); Martin, Alison E; Wolf, Alexis
• Contents: Part 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 Genèvieve-Charlotte Darlus Thiroux D'Arconville and Gabrielle Émilie 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 Soirée 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 GöttingenRenate 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. Gáldy 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 British Women Mathematicians during the First World WarJune Barrow-Green and Tony Royle 27. More than Pioneers – How Women became Professional Engineers before the Mid-Twentieth CenturyNina Baker 28. Women and Surgery after the Great WarClaire Brock 29. Technology Users vs. Technology Inventors and Why We Should CareWendy M. Dubow.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 500.8209; Women in science -- History; Feminism and science -- History; Women scientists -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030789732
• Related ISBNs: 9783030789725
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