Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science [electronic resource] /
Opitz, Donald L.editor.
Bergwik, Staffan.editor.
Van Tiggelen, Brigitte.editor.
The history of the modern sciences has long overlooked the significance of domesticity as a physical, social, and symbolic force in the shaping of knowledge production. This book provides a welcome reorientation to our understanding of the making of the modern sciences globally by emphasizing the centrality of domesticity in diverse scientific enterprises.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Domesticity and the Historiography of Science; Part I: The Estate of Knowledge: Domestic Sites and Scientific Authority; 1 Botanizing at Badminton House: The Botanical Pursuits of Mary Somerset, First Duchess of Beaufort; 2 Gender and Space in Enlightenment Science: Madame Dupiéry's Scientific Work and Network; 3 Darwin's Home of Science and the Nature of Domesticity; 4 The Tensions of Homemade Science in the Work of Henderina Scott and Hertha Ayrton
Part II: Constructions of Domestic Science and Technology5 'My Daughters of Ceres': Domestications of Agricultural Science Education for Women; 6 Gender and the Domestication of Wireless Technology in 1920s Pulp Fiction; 7 Contemporary Homemade Meteorological Science: Co-constructing the Home and Weather-Climate Knowledges in the UK; Part III: Familial Science: Sustaining Knowledge across Generations and Distances; 8 Merchants, Scientists, and Artists: Scientific Families and Scientific Practice in Nineteenth-Century Greece
9 Father, Son, and the Entrepreneurial Spirit: Otto Pettersson, Hans Pettersson, and the Early Twentieth-Century Inheritance of Oceanography10 The Laboratory Society: Science and the Family in Sweden, c.1900-1950; 11 Research Cooperation, Learning Processes, and Trust among Plant Scientists: Fictive Kinship, Academic Mobility, and Scientists' Careers; 12 Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Family in the Knowledge Economy; Part IV: Afterword; 13 Afterword: Science and the Domestic Sphere in the Longue Durée; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The history of the modern sciences has long overlooked the significance of domesticity as a physical, social, and symbolic force in the shaping of knowledge production. This book provides a welcome reorientation to our understanding of the making of the modern sciences globally by emphasizing the centrality of domesticity in diverse scientific enterprises.
History.
Social history.
Social groups.
Family.
Sociology.
History, Modern.
History of Science.
Social History.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Gender Studies.
Modern History.