Women and Science : A Social and Cultural History

Acknowledgements vi Glossary viii Science, gender and education 1(17) From the fifth century CE to the sixteenth: Learned celibacy or knowledgeable housewifery 18(17) Dangerous knowledge: Science, gender and the beginnings of modernism 35(20) Education in science and the science of education in the long eighteenth century 55(24) Radical networks in education and science in Britain from the mid-eighteenth century to c. 1815 79(20) An older and a newer world: Networks of science c. 1815--1880 99(35) Science comes of age: Male patriarchs and women serving science? 134(33) Medicine, education and gender from c. 1902 to 1944 with a case study of Birmingham 167(26) Asking questions of science: The significance of gender and education 193(13) Notes 206(47) Bibliography 253(34) Index 287