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A “Central Bureau of Feminine Algology:” Algae, Mutualism, and Gendered Ecological Perspectives, 1880–1910 (2022)

Emily S. Hutcheson (Author)

Journal of the History of Biology
Volume: 55
Issue: 4
Pages: 791-825
Publication date: 2022
Language: English

URI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-022-09698-1

DOI: 10.1007/s10739-022-09698-1

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Marine ecology Science and gender Marine scientists Women in science Research institutes; research stations Algae and algology France Karsakoff, Natalie Vickers, Anna

While women’s participation at research stations has been celebrated as a success story for women in science, their experiences were not quite equal to that of men scientists. This article shows how women interested in practicing marine science at research institutions experienced different living and research environments than their male peers; moreover, it illustrates how those gendered experiences reflected and informed the nature of their scientific practices and ideas. Set in Roscoff, France, this article excavates the work and social worlds of a Russian scientist, Natalie Karsakoff (1863–1941), and a British émigré in France, Anna Vickers (1853–1906), to show how a small group of single women who studied algae created a “central bureau of feminine algology.” The social aspects of this bureau, and the physical space and support funded by Vickers, allowed these women scientists to both participate in male-dominated practices of science and lend evidentiary support to an ecological category that emphasized benign coexistence rather than struggle. This study adds an empirical case of single women scientists managing successful careers in science and contributing to science through publication and research.

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