Femininity, mathematics, and science, 1880-1914
By: Claire G. Jones
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780230555211
Description: "Through the prism of gender, this volume explores the contrasting cultures and material and social practices of mathematics and science in the decades surrounding 1900. It is demonstrated that gender, far from being a peripheral issue, is central to understanding the development of both pure and practical disciplines at this time"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The 'Glamour' of a 'Wrangler': Women and mathematics at Girton College, Cambridge; title: Women at the 'Shrine of Pure Thought'; title: Professional or Pedestal?: Hertha Ayrton, a Woman among the Engineers; title: Collaboration, Reputation and the business of Mathematics; title: The Laboratory: A Suitable Place for a Woman?: Women, Masculinity and Laboratory Culture; title: The Mathematics of Gender: Women, Participation and the Mathematical Community; title: Bodies of controversy: Women and the Royal Society of London; title: Conclusion.