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‘All your dreadful scientific things’: women, science and education in the years around 1900.
- Source :
- History of Education; Mar2017, Vol. 46 Issue 2, p162-175, 14p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- In the years around 1900, more women were benefiting from a university education and using it as a pathway to acquiring research expertise and contributing to the development of scientific knowledge. Although numbers were small compared with men, it is clear that the idea of a female researcher was no longer an oddity. As illustrated by biographies and an analysis of three fictional texts featuring a female scientist, the increasing visibility of women did little to challenge the masculine colouring of science. A dissonance can be identified between femininity and science, even in settings sympathetic to a woman’s scientific activities. Particular unease is discernible when women are placed within the material culture of the laboratory. The problem of a woman embodying scientific authority, especially at a time when science was professionalising and institutionalising, adds an additional layer of complexity to discussions about women, science and education in these years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0046760X
- Volume :
- 46
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- History of Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 121245854
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2016.1273406