Men, women, and the birthing of modern science /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Zinsser, Judith P.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, [2005]
Subjects:	Feminism and science. Sexism in science > Europe > History. Science > Social aspects > Europe. Science > Europe > History. Science > Philosophy.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Judith P. Zinsser
SECTION I. WOMEN NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS
Queen Christina's metamorphosis - her alchemical world soul and fictional gender transformation / Susanna Åkerman
Margaret Cavendish and the microscope as play / Hilda L. Smith
The many representations of the Marquise Du Chatêlet / Judith P. Zinsser
SECTION II. SHIFTING LANGUAGE, SHIFTING ROLES
The gender of nature and the nature of gender in early modern natural philosophy / Margaret J. Osler
Neither natural philosophy, nor science, nor literature - gender, writing, and the pursuit of nature in Fontenelle's Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes habités / J.B. Shank
Minerva and Venus - Algarotti's Newton's philosophy for the ladies / Franco Arato
SECTION III. WOMEN, MEN, AND THE NEW SCIENTIFIC ESTABLISHMENT
Women and science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - different social practices, different textualities, and different kinds of science / Lynette Hunter
Joanna Stephens's medicine and the experimental philosophy / Stephen Clucas
The invisible economy of science - a new approach to the history of gender and astronomy at the eighteenth-century Berlin Academy of Sciences / Monika Mommertz
Princess Ekaterina Romanova Dashkova and women's issues in Russia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Grigory A. Tishkin.