Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- 1. Science, gender and education -- 2. From the fifth century CE to the sixteenth : learned celibacy or knowledgeable housewifery -- 3. Dangerous knowledge : science, gender and the beginnings of modernism -- 4. Education in science and the science of education in the long eighteenth century -- 5. Radical networks in education and science in Britain from the mid-eighteenth century to c. 1815 -- 6. An older and a newer world : networks of science c. 1815-1880 -- 7. Science comes of age : male patriarchs and women serving science? -- 8. Medicine, education and gender from c. 1902 to 1944 with a case study of Birmingham -- 9. Asking questions of science : the significance of gender and education -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Provides a historical grounding of the contemporary issues of gender and women in science. This work includes a survey of the history behind the popular subject and engages the reader with a theoretical understanding with significant issues like science and race, gender and technology and masculinity
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-286) and index
