- Published: 3 Aug 2016
- DOI: 10.4324/9781138641839-HOF13-1
Contents
- Abstract
- Feminist questions for science
- Cultures of science: woman as subject
- Women’s spheres in science
- Professionalisation, collaboration and learned societies
- Women, science and historiography – new directions
- References
Women and Science
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Abstract
This essay provides an overview of women and science, both as practitioners and subjects of scientific enquiry, from the late eighteenth century through to the first decades of the twentieth. It introduces the processes by which science acquired a masculine culture and describes the ways in which male-focused histories of science have misunderstood the landscape of science and, as a result, ignored women’s scientific contributions. Feminist scholarship has rendered visible the ways in which women negotiated access to science, became part of scientific networks, collaborated as peers and made significant contributions to scientific knowledge. This essay also discusses the ways in which scientific women of the past made their own feminist interventions to counter their exclusion.
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Keywords
- Modern History
- Georgian era
- Victorian era
- First World War
- Discrimination
- Domestic Sphere
- Feminist perspectives
- Gender
- Masculinity
- Middle-class
- Prejudice
- Sexism
- Woman's Role
- Women and Science
Subjects
Organisations
Periods
- 1910-1919
- 1760-1769
- 1770-1779
- 1770-1799
- 1780-1789
- 1790-1799
- 1800-1809
- 1810-1819
- 1820-1829
- 1830-1839
- 1840-1849
- 1850-1859
- 1860-1869
- 1870-1879
- 1880-1889
- 1890-1899
- 1900-1909