Women, Gender, and Technosciences, 19002020 - A Beard to Govern

This innovative volume analyses the historical entanglement of gender, technosciences and government.

List of contents

Part 1: Perspectives on Gender and the Government of the Technosciences
1. To "Make a fuss". Gender and Governance in the Historiography of Science and Technology
Donald L. Opitz and Brigitte Van Tiggelen
2. Construction of the Global Surveys of Physicists and Scientists (1999-2020): Gender and Leadership
Rachel Ivie, Irvy M.A. Gledhill and Silvina Ponce Dawson
Part 2: Gender and Technoscientific Policies
3. Women, Science, and Empowerment: The International Federation of University Women (1920s-1930s)
Anna Cabanel
4. Abortions, Eugenics, and Artificial Reproduction in the Soviet Union, 1920-1936
Alexei Kojevnikov and Kirill Rossiianov
5. Governing Psychiatry: The Importance of Networks for Brazilian Women Psychiatrists 1941 - 1970
Valentine Mercier and Ygor Martins
6. Women in Soviet Meteorology and Climatology: Governing Blindness towards Gender, 1919-1991
Katja Doose
7. "One woman started it all". Gendered Approaches to Governance of Knowledge in Postwar Greece
Loukas Freris and Maria Rentetzi
8. "She was only a post-doc": Governing Science by Lab Directors and the Vanishing Credit of Women in the Discovery of RNA Splicing
Pnina Geraldine Abir-Am
Part 3: Individual Paths in Governing the Technosciences
9. When the 'Lady of Washington' Explored Men's Work: Industrial Medicine, Labour and Gender in Early Twentieth-Century America
Judith Rainhorn
10. Feminism behind Science in the United States: Women's Governance and Leadership in Reproductive Sciences
Angeline Durand-Vallot
11. Women with Transmitters: Female Engineers and the Gendering of Technology in the Soviet Union
Ekaterina Rybkina
12. The Women Who Count: Gendering Calculations in the Soviet Atomic Project
Galina Orlova and Aleksandra Kasatkina
13. How to Save a Soviet Nature Reserve: The Strategies of Dr. Vera Varsanofieva
Olga Valkova
14. Forging a New Archaeological Discipline in the Kitchen: The Volunteer Career of Arlette Leroi-Gourhan
Gwendoline Torterat

About the author

Grégory Dufaud is Professor of contemporary history at Université Polytechnique Hauts¿de¿France, France. He is a historian of twentieth¿century Russia who specializes in history of science. His latest book, Une histoire de la psychiatrie soviétique (2021), was awarded the Prix Jean Garrabé from the Société de l'Évolution psychiatrique.
Isabelle Lemonon¿Waxin, a physicist and historian of science, is an associate researcher of Cermes3 and Centre François Viete (France). Her Ph.D. dissertation La Savante des Lumières françaises (EHESS, France) has been awarded a DHST Dissertation Prize in 2021. She is an officer of the Commission on Women and Gender in History of Science, Technology and Medicine of the DHST¿IUHPST.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Lemonon-Waxin Dufaud
• Assisted by: Grégory Dufaud (Editor), Isabelle Lémonon-Waxin (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032879826
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3287982-6
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, History of Medicine, History of Science, Social and cultural history, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Women's History;Gender and Science;Gender and Technology