University of Colorado , Boulder
Who did Joan Cadden (historian) work for from 1977 to 1978?
Joan Cadden ( historian ) Joan Cadden ( born 1944 ) is Professor Emerita of medieval history and literature in the History Department of the University of California , Davis . She served as President of the History of Science Society ( HSS ) from 2006-2007 . She has written extensively on gender and sexuality in medieval science and medicine . Her book Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Age : Medicine , Science , and Culture ( 1993 ) received the Pfizer Prize in 1994 , from the History of Science Society , as the outstanding book on the history of science . Early life and education . Joan Cadden received her B.A . from Vassar College in 1965 , and her M.A . degree from Columbia University in 1967 , writing her thesis on De elementis : Earth , Water , Air , and Fire in the 12th and 13th Centuries . She completed her Ph.D . in history and philosophy of science at Indiana University in 1971 . Her Ph.D . thesis was The Medieval Philosophy and Biology of Growth : Albertus Magnus , Thomas Aquinas , Albert of Saxony and Marsilius of Inghen on Book I , Chapter V of Aristotle’s ‘De generatione et corruptione,’ with Translated Texts of Albertus and Thomas Aquinas . Career . Cadden taught as an assistant professor in the Department of History of Science at Harvard University from 1971-1976 . She was a visiting lecturer in history at the University of Colorado , Boulder in 1977-1978 . She taught at Kenyon College from 1978-1996 . She was a Dibner Visiting Historian of Science at Purdue University Calumet in 1996-1997 . She joined the University of California at Davis in 1996 as Professor of History . Cadden served as President of the History of Science Society ( HSS ) from 2006-2007 . She retired and became Professor Emeritus at UC Davis in 2008 . Her work has been characterized as exploring the seams of disciplines—the connections between history of science , gender history , history of sexuality , social history , and intellectual history . Methodologically , she broke new ground , paying particular attention to the cultural and social milieux these sources were produced in ; to the assumptions and expectations of authors and readers ; to questions of form , style , and presentation . Her book Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Age : Medicine , Science , and Culture ( 1993 ) was groundbreaking in its examination of sex and gender , and has deeply influenced subsequent scholarship . Cadden examines the discussions of sexual difference from Aristotle through the fourteenth century , revealing a wide range of ideas about sexual determination , reproductive roles and sexual pleasure . She finds multiple models of sexuality in writings throughout the middles ages . This challenged Thomas Laqueurs assertion in Making Sex : Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud ( 1990 ) that male and female were seen as manifestations of a unified substratum before the 18th century . Cadden addressed medieval discourse in all its staggering complexity , an interconnectedness of intellectual interests that was far from comforting in its diversity . She went on to research Pietro DAbano and to explore the complexities of medieval natural philosophers understanding of homosexual desire in her book Nothing Natural Is Shameful : Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe ( 2013 ) . Although she recognizes its limitations , she uses the medieval term sodomy to avoid conflation with modern senses of the term homosexuality . Discussion focuses around Aristotles Problemata IV.26 and its questioning of male-male sexual desire . The book has been described as a sophisticated reflection on sex and sexuality . Awards . Her book Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Age : Medicine , Science , and Culture ( 1993 ) received the 1994 Pfizer Prize for outstanding book on the history of science from the History of Science Society . It was the first book on gender studies and the first book in thirty years on medieval studies , to win that award . Her work was celebrated at two sessions at the 44th annual International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo , Michigan in 2009 by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship . The Medieval Foremothers Society honored Joan Cadden in the sessions “Thinking beyond the ‘Woman Writer’ in Reconstructing Women’s Intellectual Worlds,” and “ ( New ) Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages : Medicine , Science , and Culture ( A Roundtable ) .” These were later published in the Medieval Feminist Forum ( 2010 ) .