Science and sensibility : gender and scientific enquiry, 1780-1945 /

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Other Authors: Benjamin, Marina.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, MA, USA : B. Blackwell, 1991.
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Table of Contents:
  • Elbow room : women writers on science, 1790-1840 / Marina Benjamin
  • The laws of health : women, medicine and sanitary reform, 1850-1890 / Perry Williams
  • Women in the nineteenth-century scientific instrument trade / A.D. Morrison-Low
  • The private life of plants : sexual politics in Carl Linnaeus and Erasmus Darwin / Londa Schiebinger
  • Dichotomy and denial : mesmerism, medicine and Harriet Martineau / Roger Cooter
  • Hermaphroditism and sex difference : the construction of gender in Victorian England / Ornella Moscucci
  • (cont.) Hysteria male/hysteria female : reflections on comparative gender construction in nineteenth-century France and Britain / Mark S. Micale
  • 'Life' as we have known it : feminism and the biology of gender / Lynda Birke
  • Unfathering the thinkable : gender, science and pacifism in the 1930s / Gill Hudson.