Women in Science: A Social and Cultural History

by Ruth Watts

Overview

The first book of its kind to provide a full and comprehensive historical grounding of the contemporary issues of gender and women in science.

Women in Science includes a detailed survey of the history behind the popular subject and engages the reader with a theoretical and informed understanding with significant issues like science and race, gender and technology and masculinity.

It moves beyond the historical work on women and science by avoiding focusing on individual women scientists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415253079
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/06/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ruth Watts is Professor of History of Education at the University of
Birmingham. Her research interests are in the history of education and
gender and publications include Gender, Power and the Unitarians in
England, 1760-1860.

Table of Contents

1. Science, Gender and Education 2. From the Fifth Century CE to the Sixteenth: Learned Celibacy or Knowledgeable Housewifery 3. Dangerous Knowledge: Science, Gender and the Beginnings of Modernism 4. Education in Science and the Science of Education in the Long Eighteenth Century 5. Radical Networks in Education and Science in Britain from the Mid Eighteenth Century to c. 1815 6. An Older and a Newer World: Networks of Science 7. Science Comes of Age: Male Patriarchs and Women Serving Science? 8. Medicine, Education and Gender from c.1902–44 with a Case Study of Birmingham 9. Asking Questions of Science: The Significance of Gender and Education

Editorial Reviews

'An essential resource for student assignments.' - BBC History Magazine

'Recommended. Undergraduates.'- CHOICE

'Watts has provided an invaluable resource...She sysnthesises the significant literature, adds new knowledge and makes the whole accessible to a wide audience. This was sorely needed' - Claire Jones, University of Liverpool

'Her book goes beyond synthesis in important ways, exetending discussion and asking new questions...It promises to be an invaluable resource for many audiences' - Women's History Magazine

'An essential resource for student assignments.' - BBC History Magazine

'Recommended. Undergraduates.'- CHOICE

'Watts has provided an invaluable resource...She sysnthesises the significant literature, adds new knowledge and makes the whole accessible to a wide audience. This was sorely needed' - Claire Jones, University of Liverpool

'Her book goes beyond synthesis in important ways, exetending discussion and asking new questions...It promises to be an invaluable resource for many audiences' - Women's History Magazine

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