| Description |
379 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt. -- Isis' consciousness raised / Carolyn Merchant. -- Managing an experimental household: the Dees of Mortlake and the practice of natural philosophy / Deborah E. Harkness. -- Maria Winkelman at the Berlin Academy: a turning point for women in science / Londa Schiebinger. -- Science as a career in enlightenment Italy: the strategies of Laura Bassi / Paula Findlen. -- Botany for gentlemen: Erasmus Darwin and the loves of the plants / Janet Browne. -- Goethe's botany: lessons of a feminine science / Lisbet Koerner. -- The American career of Jane Marcet's conversations on chemistry, 1806-1853 / M. Susan Lindee. -- Parlors, primers, and public schooling: education for science in nineteenth-century America / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt. -- Science education for women in Antebellum America / Deborah Jean Warner. -- Science, women, and the Russian intelligentsia: the generation of the 1860s / Ann Hibner Koblitz. -- Women astronomers in Britain, 1780-1930 / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell. -- "A lab of one's own" : the Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women at Cambridge University, 1884-1914 / Marsha L. Richmond. -- Race and gender : the role of analogy in science / Nancy Leys Stepan. -- "Women's work" in science, 1880-1910 / Margaret W. Rossiter. -- Physiology in American women's colleges: the rise and decline of a female subculture / Toby A. Appel. -- Nettie M. Stevens and the discovery of sex determination by chromosomes / Stephen G. Brush. -- Marcella O'Grady Boveri (1863-1950): her three careers in biology / Margaret R. Wright. |
| Subject |
Women in science.
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Science -- history.
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Women -- history.
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| Added Author |
Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory, 1943-
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| Added Title |
Isis.
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| ISBN |
0226450694 |
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0226450708 paperback |
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