The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science since 1660
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of core areas of investigation and theory relating to the history of women and science. Bringing together new research with syntheses of pivotal scholarship, the volume acknowledges and integrates history, theory and practice across a range of disciplines and periods. While the handbook's primary focus is on women's experiences, chapters also reflect more broadly on gender, including issues of femininity and masculinity as related to scientific practice and representation. Spanning the period from the birth of modern science in the late seventeenth century to current challenges facing women in S…
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Weitere Autoren: Wolf, Alexis (Hrsg.) / Jones, Claire G. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-030-78973-2
- EAN: 9783030789732
- Produktnummer: 38056405
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 658 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 11'449 KB
Über den Autor
Claire G. Jones is a Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. Her principal area of research is gender and science in the nineteenth century in Britain. She is author of Femininity, Mathematics and Science, 1880-1914 (2009) and co-editor of Women and Science: Special Issue of Notes and Records of the Royal Society (2015). Alison E. Martin is Professor of British Studies at the Germersheim faculty of the Johannes Gutenberg Universität-Mainz, Germany, which specialises in Translation Studies and Interpreting. She has published widely on translation studies, travel literature, scientific writing and gender. Her most recent monograph is Nature Translated: Alexander von Humboldt's Works in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).Alexis Wolf is a Research Associate in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. Her research focuses on women's writing of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, including in the areas of medicine and antiquarianism. She is currently working on her first book, which examines manuscript circulation within women's transnational networks in the Romantic period.
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