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Negotiating in/visibility

Women, science, engineering and medicine in the twentieth century

Edited by Amelia Bonea and Irina Nastasa-Matei

Negotiating in/visibility
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  • ISBN: 9781526178381
  • Publish Date: Aug 2025
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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    • Format: Hardcover
    • Pages: 440
    • Price: £30.00
    • Published Date: August 2025

    Description

    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.

    Contents

    Foreword - Mariko Ogawa
    Acknowledgements
    List of abbreviations

    Introduction: In/visible women, science, engineering and medicine in the twentieth century - Amelia Bonea and Irina Nastasa-Matei

    I Laboratory cultures: Visible scientific rebels, invisible innovators
    1 Breaking down the barriers at Cambridge in the 1930s: Reinet Maasdorp's experience at Rutherford's Cavendish Laboratory - Kathryn Keeble
    2 'Your research is crap, do not bother to apply again': Female evolutionary biology theorists as scientific rebels and oppositional scientists - Nuala Caomhánach
    3 Women's invisibility in public memory of the discovery of RNA splicing: Converging biases of gender, race and mentorship - Pnina Geraldine Abir-Am

    II In/visibilities across borders: Scientific collaborations and contestations
    4 Inventing a career across borders in the early 1930s: The case of cytogeneticists Eileen W. Erlanson and E. K. Janaki Ammal - Savithri Preetha Nair
    5 Vlasta Kálalová Di-Lotti in Iraq: Medical practice and scientific research - Adéla Junová Macková
    6 Early years of the International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists: Shaping transnational collaboration in the Cold War era, 1964-1975 - Emily Rees Koerner and Graeme Gooday


    III In/visibilities in medicine and care: Treating, teaching, reforming
    7 'A model of devotion to the school': Female doctors in secondary schools in interwar Romania - Camelia Zavarache
    8 Women and the practice of Western medicine in late Republican China: Evidence from Sichuan - Jean Corbi
    9 Agency and coercion: Fighting 'women's illnesses' with grassroots science and medicine during the Great Famine in China, 1958-1962 - Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley

    IV Intimate knowledge and in/visible domesticities: Science, medicine and the home
    10 The curious case of Yashoda Devi, a woman Ayurvedic practitioner in colonial India - Saurav Kumar Rai
    11 Lady Irwin College: Domestic science post-secondary education for three women graduates in India - Anne Hardgrove
    12 Clara Park: A mother's intimate knowledge and child science - Marga Vicedo

    V Towards visible change? Publics, pedagogies and politics of science
    13 The valuable 's': Publics and counterpublics of abortion and contraception in late twentieth-century Greece - Evangelia Chordaki
    14 The power of autobiography: Documenting women scientists through a lecture series at the University of Illinois - Bethany G. Anderson and Kristen Allen Wilson
    15 How to do science as a woman and laugh? Insights and lessons from Hungary - Andrea Peto

    Editors

    Amelia Bonea is Lecturer in Global History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester

    Irina Nastasa-Matei is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Bucharest

    Negotiating in/visibility

    Edited by Amelia Bonea, Irina Nastasa-Matei

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