Femininity, mathematics and science,...
Jones, Claire G.

 

  • Femininity, mathematics and science, 1880-1914[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 500.82
    書名/作者: Femininity, mathematics and science, 1880-1914/ Claire G. Jones.
    作者: Jones, Claire G.
    出版者: Basingstoke : : Palgrave Macmillan,, c2009.
    面頁冊數: ix, 264 p. : : ill. ;; 23 cm.
    標題: Women in science - History - 19th century.
    標題: Women in mathematics - History - 19th century.
    標題: Feminism and science.
    標題: Women - Intellectual life - 19th century.
    ISBN: 9780230246652
    ISBN: 0230246656
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: The 'glamour' of a 'wrangler': Women and Mathematics at Girton College, Cambridge -- Women atthe 'Shrine of Pure Thought' -- Professional or Pedestal?: Hertha Ayrton, a Woman among the Engineers -- Collaboration, Reputation and the Business of 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 of London.
    摘要、提要註: Through the prism of gender, this book examines the contrasting cultures and practices of mathematics and science in the decades surrounding 1900 and asks how they impacted on women. Claire Jones explores ideasabout women's intellect and femininity and assesses how these attitudes shaped women's experiences as students and practitioners. Particular attention is paid to women studying mathematics at Cambridge and the repercussions of their relative success on the pass lists. Although the focus is firmly on women, the book also engages with issues of masculinity, identifying a culture of manliness within the laboratory and analysing the gender politics of the Royal Society of London, which almost elected a woman in 1902, but actually had no female Fellow until 1945. Using sources including institutional records, letters, memoirs, journalistic and fictional accounts, Jones offers fresh insights into the operation of gender within science and mathematics between c1880 and 1914.
    電子資源: access to fulltext (Palgrave)
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