Ruth Watts

Women in Science (eBook, PDF)

A Social and Cultural History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The first book of its kind to provide a comprehensive historical grounding of the contemporary issues of gender and women in science, this book provides a highly theoretical and informed understanding of the subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134526512
• Artikelnr.: 39263608

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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

Rezensionen

'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