Book ID: CBB001221430

Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists (2011)

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Andréolle, Donna Spalding (Editor)
Molinari, Véronique (Editor)


Cambridge Scholars Publishing


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: xxv + 272 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Martin, Alison E. (2012) Review of "Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 309). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Parageau, Sandrine (2011) Auto Didacticism and the Construction of Scientific Discourse in Early Modern England: Margaret Cavendish's and Anne Conway's “Intellectual Bricolage”. In: Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists (p. 3). unapi

Chapter Carlyle, Margaret (2011) Invisible Assistants and Translated Texts: D'Arconville and Practical Chemistry in Enlightenment France. In: Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists (p. 19). unapi

Chapter Etheridge, Kay (2011) Maria Sibylla Merian: The First Ecologist?. In: Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists (p. 35). unapi

Chapter Sorin, Claire (2011) Anatomy of the Female Angel or Science at the Service of Woman in Woman and Her Era by Eliza Farnham. In: Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists (p. 55). unapi

Chapter Kravetz, Melissa (2011) Promoting Eugenics and Maternalism: Women Doctors and Marriage Counseling in Weimar Germany. In: Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists (p. 69). unapi

Chapter Cullen, Clara (2011) Women and the Pursuit of Scientific Knowledge in Mid-Victorian Dublin. In: Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists (p. 89). unapi

Chapter Molinari, Véronique (2011) “Schools of their Own”: The Ladies' Medical College and the London School of Medicine for Women. In: Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists (p. 99). unapi

Chapter Quanquin, Hélène (2011) Elizabeth Blackwell, “The Singular Doctor”: Representing and Locating the Pioneer Woman Physician in the Nineteenth Century. In: Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists (p. 125). unapi

Chapter Wilson, Lindsay (2011) Representations of Women in the History of Science in France: Going beyond Names without Faces and Faces without Accomplishments. In: Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists (p. 141). unapi

Chapter Bix, Amy (2011) The Male Tempo of Engineering: Coeds Adapt to Georgia Tech. In: Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists (p. 155). unapi

Chapter Bertonèche, Caroline (2011) Women of Science Fiction: Romantic Mythologies and Female Emancipation from John Keats to Dan Simmons. In: Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists (p. 181). unapi

Chapter Leishman, David (2011) “The Labours of Men of Genius”: Frankenstein, Fertility and the Female Scientist in the Work of Alasdair Gray. In: Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists (p. 193). unapi

Chapter Andréolle, Donna Spalding (2011) Impossible Dialogues? Science in American Feminist Science Fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. In: Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists (p. 211). unapi

Chapter Endo, Yukihide (2011) Women and Science in Japanese Anime: A Challenge to the Traditional Construction of Female Identity. In: Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists (p. 227). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Reis, Elizabeth
Smith, Elise Lawton
Page, Judith W
Zinsser, Judith P.
Winterburn, Emily
Wallwork, Jo
Concepts
Science and gender
Women in science
Gender identity
Science and literature
Science education and teaching
Androgyny; hermaphroditism
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century
Early modern
16th century
Places
United States
Europe
Great Britain
Arctic regions
England
Bologna (Italy)
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