Women and Science 17th Century to Present Pioneers Activists and Protagonists 1st Edition by Véronique Molinari ISBN 978-1443829182 1443829188

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ISBN 10:  1443829188

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Author: Véronique Molinari

If women’s interest and participation in the advancement of science has a long history, the academic study of their contributions is a far more recent phenomenon, to be placed in the wake of “second wave” feminism in the 1970s and the advent of women’s studies which have, since then, given impetus to research on female figures in specific fields or, more generally speaking, on women’s battles to gain access to knowledge, education and recognition in the scientific world. These studies—while providing a useful insight into the contributions of a few more or less well-known figures—have mostly focused, however, on the obstacles that women have had to overcome in the field of education and employment or in their quest for acknowledgement by their male peers. The aim of this volume is to try and approach the issue from a different and more comprehensive point of view, taking into account not only the position of women in science, but also the link between women and science through the analysis of various kinds of discourse and representation such as the press, poetry, fiction, biographies and autobiographies or professional journals—including that of women themselves. The questions of the presentation or re(-)presentation of science by women are thus at the core of this study, as well as that of the portrayal and self-portrayal of women in the sciences (whether in the educational, or the professional field). A final part examines how women are represented in science fiction which, like science itself, has traditionally been a field dominated by men.

Table of contents: 

1 The Shape of Time: Élan Vital and Memento Mori
2 Laocoön’s Filmstrip: Classicism, Marxism, Vitalism
3 Orientalism: Ballets Russes, Occultism, Canudo
4 Wings of Desire: Aviation, Fashion, Circus Stunts
5 Acting: Prostitution, Vertigo, Close-up
6 Modern Woman: Minor Stars and the Short Film
7 Tropes: Obsessions and Traumas of a Genre
8 Nino Oxilia: Blue Blood and Satanic Rhapsody
9 Auto Didacticism and the Construction of Scientific Discourse in Early Modern England: Margaret Cavendish’s and Anne Conway’s “Intellectual Bricolage”
 Sandrine Parageau (University Denis Diderot Paris 7, France)
10 Invisible Assistants and Translated Texts: d’Arconville and Practical Chemistry in Enlightenment France
 Margaret Carlyle (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
11 Maria Sibylla Merian: The First Ecologist?
 Kay Etheridge (Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, United States)
12 Anatomy of the Female Angel or Science at the Service of Woman in Woman and Her Era by Eliza Farnham
 Claire Sorin (University of Provence, France)
13 Promoting Eugenics and Maternalism: Women Doctors and Marriage Counselling in Weimar Germany
 Melissa Kravetz (University of Maryland, United States)
14 Women and the Pursuit of Scientific Knowledge in Mid-Victorian Dublin
 Clara Cullen (University College Dublin, Ireland)
15 “Schools of Their Own”: The Ladies’ Medical College and the London School of Medicine for Women
 Véronique Molinari (University Stendhal Grenoble III, France)
16 Elizabeth Blackwell, “The Singular Woman Doctor”: Representing and Locating the Pioneer Woman Physician in the Nineteenth Century
 Hélène Quanquin (University Paris 3, France)
17 Representations of Women in the History of Science in France: Going beyond Names without Faces, Faces without Accomplishments
 Lindsay Blake Wilson (Northern Arizona University, United States)
18 Trail Bl1 Temp of Engineering: Coeds Adapt to Georgia Tech
 Amy Bix (Iowa State University, United States)
19 Women of Science Fiction: Romantic Mythologies and Female Emancipation from John Keats to Dan Simmons
 Caroline Bertonèche (University Stendhal Grenoble III, France)
20 “The Labours of Men of Genius”: Frankenstein, Fertility and the Female Scientist in the Work of Alasdair Gray
 David Leishman (University Stendhal Grenoble III, France)
21 Impossible Dialogues?: Science in American Feminist Science Fiction of the 1970s and 1980s
 Donna Spalding Andreolle (University Stendhal Grenoble III, France)
22 Women and Science in Japanese Anime: A Challenge to the Traditional Construction of Female Identity
 Yukiko Endo (Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan)

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