Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. List of figures ix
5. List of tables x
6. List of contributors xi
7. Acknowledgements xvii
8. List of abbreviations xix
9. Foreword xxi
10. Introduction 1
11. I Laboratory cultures 37
12. 1 Breaking down the barriers at Cambridge in the 1930s 39
13. 2 ‘Your research is crap, do not bother to apply again’ 57
14. II In/visibilities across borders 77
15. 3 Inventing a career across borders in the early 1930s 79
16. 4 Vlasta Kálalová Di-Lotti in Iraq 103
17. 5 Early years of the International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists 125
18. III In/visibilities in medicine and care 145
19. 6 ‘A model of devotion to the school’ 147
20. 7 Women and the practice of Western medicine in late Republican China 172
21. 8 Agency and coercion 192
22. IV Intimate knowledge and in/visible domesticities 215
23. 9 The curious case of Yashoda Devi, a woman Ayurvedic practitioner in colonial India 217
24. 10 Lady Irwin College 236
25. 11 Clara Park 257
26. V Towards visible change? Publics, pedagogies and politics of science 279
27. 12 The valuable ‘s’ 281
28. 13 The power of autobiography 301
29. 14 How to do science as a woman and laugh? Insights and lessons from Hungary 321
30. Select bibliography 334
31. Index 353