History of Women in the Sciences
Readings from Isis
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Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
Isis’ Consciousness Raised
Carolyn Merchant
Managing an Experimental Household: The Dees of Mortlake and the Practice of Natural Philosophy
Deborah E. Harkness
Maria Winkelmann at the Berlin Academy: A Turning Point for Women in Science
Londa Schiebinger
Science as a Career in Enlightenment Italy: The Strategies of Laura Bassi
Paula Findlen
Botany for Gentlemen: Erasmus Darwin and The Loves of the Plants
Janet Browne
Goethe’s Botany: Lessons of a Feminine Science
Lisbet Koerner
The American Career of Jane Marcet’s Conversations on Chemistry, 1806-1853
M. Susan Lindee
Parlors, Primers, and Public Schooling: Education for Science in Nineteenth-Century America
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
Science Education for Women in Antebellum America
Deborah Jean Warner
Science, Women, and the Russian Intelligentsia: The Generation of the 1860s
Ann Hibner Koblitz
Women Astronomers in Britain, 1780-1930
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
"A Lab of One’s Own:" The Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women at Cambridge University, 1884-1914
Marsha L. Richmond
Race and Gender: The Role of Analogy in Science
Nancy Leys Stepan
"Women’s Work" in Science, 1880-1910
Margaret W. Rossiter
Physiology in American Women’s Colleges: The Rise and Decline of a Female Subculture
Toby A. Appel
Nettie M. Stevens and the Discovery of Sex Determination by Chromosomes
Stephen G. Brush
Marcella O’Grady Boveri (1863-1950): Her Three Careers in Biology
Margaret R. Wright
Index
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
Isis’ Consciousness Raised
Carolyn Merchant
Managing an Experimental Household: The Dees of Mortlake and the Practice of Natural Philosophy
Deborah E. Harkness
Maria Winkelmann at the Berlin Academy: A Turning Point for Women in Science
Londa Schiebinger
Science as a Career in Enlightenment Italy: The Strategies of Laura Bassi
Paula Findlen
Botany for Gentlemen: Erasmus Darwin and The Loves of the Plants
Janet Browne
Goethe’s Botany: Lessons of a Feminine Science
Lisbet Koerner
The American Career of Jane Marcet’s Conversations on Chemistry, 1806-1853
M. Susan Lindee
Parlors, Primers, and Public Schooling: Education for Science in Nineteenth-Century America
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
Science Education for Women in Antebellum America
Deborah Jean Warner
Science, Women, and the Russian Intelligentsia: The Generation of the 1860s
Ann Hibner Koblitz
Women Astronomers in Britain, 1780-1930
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
"A Lab of One’s Own:" The Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women at Cambridge University, 1884-1914
Marsha L. Richmond
Race and Gender: The Role of Analogy in Science
Nancy Leys Stepan
"Women’s Work" in Science, 1880-1910
Margaret W. Rossiter
Physiology in American Women’s Colleges: The Rise and Decline of a Female Subculture
Toby A. Appel
Nettie M. Stevens and the Discovery of Sex Determination by Chromosomes
Stephen G. Brush
Marcella O’Grady Boveri (1863-1950): Her Three Careers in Biology
Margaret R. Wright
Index
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