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Masculinity and Science in Britain, 1831–1918 (2017)

Ellis, Heather (Author)

Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN: 9781137311733

Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 240 pages
Language: English

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Masculinity Science and gender 20th century, early 19th century Great Britain British Association for the Advancement of Science

This book offers the first in-depth study of the masculine self-fashioning of scientific practitioners in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on the British Association for the Advancement of Science, founded in 1831, it explores the complex and dynamic shifts in the public image of the British ‘man of science’ and questions the status of the natural scientist as a modern masculine hero. Until now, science has been examined by cultural historians primarily for evidence about the ways in which scientific discourses have shaped prevailing notions about women and supported the growth of oppressive patriarchal structures. This volume, by contrast, offers the first in-depth study of the importance of ideals of masculinity in the construction of the male scientist and British scientific culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From the eighteenth-century identification of the natural philosopher with the reclusive scholar, to early nineteenth-century attempts to reinvent the scientist as a fashionable gentleman, to his subsequent reimagining as the epitome of Victorian moral earnestness and meritocracy, Heather Ellis analyzes the complex and changing public image of the British ‘man of science’.

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Review Laura Newman (2018) Review of "Masculinity and Science in Britain, 1831–1918". History of Education (pp. 582-583). unapi

Review Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund (2018) Review of "Masculinity and Science in Britain, 1831–1918". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 710-711). unapi

Review Robert A. Nye (2018) Review of "Masculinity and Science in Britain, 1831–1918". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 266-268). unapi

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