Gender and Boyle's Law of Gases

Elizabeth Potter is the Alice Andrews Quigley Professor of
Women's Studies at Mills College. She is co-editor of Feminist Epistemologies and author of numerous articles in feminist epistemology and feminist philosophy of science.

List of contents

Contents

Introduction

Part I: The Intersection of Gender and Science: Now We See It. Now We Don't.

1. Now We See It

2. Now We Don't

Part II: Boyle's Work in Context

1. Economics, Politics and Religion: Stuart Conflicts With Parliament

2. Civil War Approaches

3. The Intersection of Class and Gender Politics

4. The Boyle Family's Religious and Class Politics

5. More Class and Gender Politics

6. Boyle's Gender Politics

7. Boyle's Background Reading

8. Boyle's Hermeticism, Magic and Active Principles

9. Hermeticism, Hylozooism and Radical Politics

10. Boyle's Concern Over the Sectaries

11. Boyle's Objections to Hylozooism

12. Experimental Support for the Corpuscular Philosophy

13. Boyle's Law of Gases

14. The Production of An Alternative Law

15. Methodological Considerations

16. "The Data Alone Proved Boyle's Hypothesis"

17. Good Science

Conclusion

About the author

Elizabeth Potter is the Alice Andrews Quigley Professor of
Women's Studies at Mills College. She is co-editor of Feminist Epistemologies and author of numerous articles in feminist epistemology and feminist philosophy of science.

Summary

Re-examines the assumptions and experimental evidence behind Boyle's Law. The author argues that even good science is sometimes influenced by gender and class politics, and she shows that this work leading to the Gas Law, while certainly based on the experimental evidence, was also based on class and gendered considerations.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Potter, Potter Elizabeth
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2001
• EAN: 9780253214553
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21455-3
• No. of pages: 226
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 335 g
• Series: Race, Health, and Social Care; Race, Health, and Social Care; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories