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Negotiating in/visibility

Women, science, engineering and medicine in the twentieth century
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2025

About this book

This volume brings together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to discuss how women contributed to the making, pedagogy, institutionalisation and communication of scientific knowledge in the twentieth century, and to reflect on the theoretical and methodological challenges of documenting such hidden contributions. Featuring examples from China, former Czechoslovakia, Greece, Hungary, India, Japan, Romania, the United Kingdom and the United States, the contributors discuss women’s engagement with science across different institutional and non-institutional sites, ranging from the laboratory and the school to the clinic, the home and the media. The volume moves beyond the professional scientist model to enlarge our understanding of women’s participation in twentieth-century science and document the complex combination of factors that rendered such contributions (in)visible to contemporaries and future generations.

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'Negotiating in/visibility” advances the history of women in science in two ways. It multiplies the sites at which we look for scientific work, foregrounding schools, homes and voluntary associations alongside laboratories and clinics. It also shows that the politics of visibility must be studied within networks of travel, translation and pedagogy, not only within the walls of institutions. For historians of science, technology and medicine, as well as for gender historians and STS scholars, this is a collection to assign and to argue with. It is a model of how edited volumes can extend a field’s archive while sharpening its conceptual tools.'
Masha Bratishcheva, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, H-Soz-Kult

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    Front Matter

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    Dedication

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    Contents

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    List of figures

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    List of tables

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    List of contributors

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    Acknowledgements

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    List of abbreviations

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    Foreword

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    Mariko Ogawa
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    Introduction

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    Amelia Bonea and Irina Nastasă-Matei
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    I Laboratory cultures

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    1 Breaking down the barriers at Cambridge in the 1930s

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    Kathryn Keeble
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    2 ‘Your research is crap, do not bother to apply again’

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    Nuala Proinnseas Caomhánach
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    II In/visibilities across borders

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    3 Inventing a career across borders in the early 1930s

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    Savithri Preetha Nair
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    4 Vlasta Kálalová Di-Lotti in Iraq

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    Adéla Jůnová Macková
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    5 Early years of the International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists

    125
    Emily Rees Koerner and Graeme Gooday
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    III In/visibilities in medicine and care

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    6 ‘A model of devotion to the school’

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    Camelia Zavarache
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    7 Women and the practice of Western medicine in late Republican China

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    Jean Corbi
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    8 Agency and coercion

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    Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley
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    IV Intimate knowledge and in/visible domesticities

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    9 The curious case of Yashoda Devi, a woman Ayurvedic practitioner in colonial India

    217
    Saurav Kumar Rai
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    10 Lady Irwin College

    236
    Anne Hardgrove
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    11 Clara Park

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    Marga Vicedo
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    V Towards visible change? Publics, pedagogies and politics of science

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    12 The valuable ‘s’

    281
    Evangelia Chordaki
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    13 The power of autobiography

    301
    Bethany G. Anderson and Kristen Allen Wilson
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    14 How to do science as a woman and laugh? Insights and lessons from Hungary

    321
    Andrea Pető
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    Select bibliography

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    Index

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9781526178398
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https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526178398
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Keywords for this book
communication networks; decolonization; discrimination; domestic sphere; gender equality; gender roles; grassroots science; knowledge production; laboratory culture; marginalization; multingual archive; Nobel Prize; science communication; twentieth century; women in science
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For a non-specialist adult audience
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