Femininity, mathematics, and science c. 1880-1914
By: Claire G. Jones.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230555211
Subjects: Women in mathematics; Women in science; Eighteen nineties; Nineteen hundreds (Decade); Feminism and science -- History
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: Machine generated contents note: Introduction * Coaching for Girls: Mathematical Training at Cambridge and other Institutions in Britain and America * Women at the 'Shrine of Pure Thought': Gttingen in Germany and other Mathematical Centres in Europe * Professional or Pedestal?: a Woman among the Engineers * Collaboration, Reputation and Mathematics * The Laboratory: A Suitable Place for a Woman?: Women, Masculinity and Laboratory Culture * The Mathematics of Gender: Women, Participation and the Mathematical Community * Bodies of controversy: Women and the Royal Society * Conclusion *Appendices Introduction * Coaching for Girls: Mathematical Training at Cambridge and other Institutions in Britain and America * Women at the 'Shrine of Pure Thought': Gttingen in Germany and other Mathematical Centres in Europe * Professional or Pedestal?: a Woman among the Engineers * Collaboration, Reputation and Mathematics * The Laboratory: A Suitable Place for a Woman?: Women, Masculinity and Laboratory Culture * The Mathematics of Gender: Women, Participation and the Mathematical Community * Bodies of controversy: Women and the Royal Society * Conclusion *Appendices.