Hypatia's Heritage
Title | Hypatia's Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Alic |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 1986-11-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780807067314 |
A history of women in science from antiquity through the nineteenth century.
Hypatia's heritage
Title | Hypatia's heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Alic |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 230 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Women in science |
ISBN | 9780704328600 |
Hypatia
Title | Hypatia PDF eBook |
Author | Edward J. Watts |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2017-02-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190659149 |
A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best known female intellectuals. During the sixteen centuries following her murder, by a mob of Christians, Hypatia has been remembered in books, poems, plays, paintings, and films as a victim of religious intolerance whose death symbolized the end of the Classical world. But Hypatia was a person before she was a symbol. Her great skill in mathematics and philosophy redefined the intellectual life of her home city of Alexandria. Her talent as a teacher enabled her to assemble a circle of dedicated male students. Her devotion to public service made her a force for peace and good government in a city that struggled to maintain trust and cooperation between pagans and Christians. Despite these successes, Hypatia fought countless small battles to live the public and intellectual life that she wanted. This book rediscovers the life Hypatia led, the unique challenges she faced as a woman who succeeded spectacularly in a man's world, and the tragic story of the events that led to her tragic murder.
Has Feminism Changed Science?
Title | Has Feminism Changed Science? PDF eBook |
Author | Londa Schiebinger |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 2001-04-02 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0674005449 |
Do women do science differently? This is a history of women in science and a frank assessment of the role of gender in shaping scientific knowledge. Londa Schiebinger looks at how women have fared and performed in both instances.
Hypatia of Alexandria
Title | Hypatia of Alexandria PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Deakin |
Publisher | Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | 231 |
Release | 2010-09-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 161592129X |
This is the first biography of Hypatia of Alexandria to integrate all aspects of her life emphasizing that, though she was a philosopher, she was first and foremost a mathematician and astronomer of great accomplishment.
Before Victoria
Title | Before Victoria PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Denlinger |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2005-04-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0231509936 |
It might not have the been the revolution that Mary Wollstonecraft called for in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), but the Romantic era did witness a dramatic change in women's lives. Combining literary and cultural history, this richly illustrated volume brings back to life a remarkable, though frequently overlooked, group of women who transformed British culture and inspired new ways of understanding feminine roles and female sexuality. What was this revolution like? Women were expected to be more moral, more constrained, and more private than in the eighteenth century, when women such as Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire crafted bold public personas. Genteel women no longer laughed aloud at bawdy jokes and noblewomen ran charity bazaars instead of private casinos. By 1800, motherhood had become a sacred calling and women who could afford to do so devoted themselves to the home. While this idealization of domesticity kept some women off the streets, it afforded others new opportunities. Often working from home, women wrote novels and poetry, sculpted busts, painted portraits, and conducted scientific research. They also seized the chance to do good, and crafted new public roles for themselves as philanthropists and reformers. Now-obscure female astronomers, photographers, sculptors, and mathematicians share these pages with celebrated writers such as Mary Shelley, her mother Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Robinson, who in addition to being a novelist and actress was also the mistress of the Prince of Wales. This book also makes full use of The New York Public Library's extensive collections, including graphic works and caricatures from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, manuscripts, hand-colored illustrations, broadsides, drawings, oil paintings, notebooks, albums and early photographs. These vivid, beautiful, and often humorous images depict these women, their works, and their social and domestic worlds.
A World Without Women
Title | A World Without Women PDF eBook |
Author | David F. Noble |
Publisher | Knopf |
Total Pages | 477 |
Release | 2013-01-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0307828522 |
In this groundbreaking work of history, David Noble examines the origins and implications of the masculine culture of Western science and technology. He begins by asking why women have figure so little in the development of science, and then proceeds—in a fascinating and radical analysis—to trace their absence to a deep-rooted legacy of the male-dominated Western religious community. He shows how over the last thousand years science and the practice and institutions of higher learning were dominated by Christian clerics, whose ascetic culture from the late medieval period militated against the inclusion of women in scientific enterprise. He further demonstrates how the attitudes that took hold then remained more or less intact through the Reformation, and still subtly permeate out thinking despite the secularization of learning. Noble also describes how during the first millennium and after, women at times gained amazingly broad intellectual freedom and participated both in clerical activities and in scholarly pursuits. But, as Noble shows, these episodic forays occurred only in the wake of anticlerical movements within the church and without. He suggest finally an impulse toward “defeminization” at the core of the modern scientific and technological enterprise as it work to wrest from one-half of humanity its part in production (the Industrial Revolution’s male appropriation of labor) and reproduction (the millennium-old quest for the artificial womb). An important book that profoundly examine how the culture of Western Science came to be a world without women.