| Description |
viii, 215 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Judith P. Zinsser -- SECTION I. WOMEN NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS -- Queen Christina's metamorphosis: her alchemical world soul and fictional gender transformation / Susanna Akerman -- Margaret Cavendish and the microscope as play / Hilda L. Smith -- Many representations of the Marquise Du Chatêlet / Judith P. Zinsser -- SECTION II. SHIFTING LANGUAGE, SHIFTING ROLES -- 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 pluralite des mondes habites / 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 -- 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. |
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Feminism and science.
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Sexism in science -- Europe -- History.
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Science -- Social aspects -- Europe.
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Science -- Europe -- History.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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| Added Author |
Zinsser, Judith P.
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| ISBN |
0875803407 (alk. paper) |
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9780875803401 (alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780875803401 |
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NLGGC 272249157 |
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YDXCP 2227519 |
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