Women, Gender, and Technosciences, 1900–2020

A Beard to Govern

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvGrégory Dufaud,Isabelle Lémonon-Waxin,Gregory Dufaud,Isabelle Lemonon-Waxin

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This innovative volume analyzes the historical entanglement of gender, technosciences, and government/governance.Situated at the crossroad of women and gender studies, science and technology studies, and political sociology, this volume shows the ever‑accumulating gendered mechanisms that have determined the careers of scientific women and their access to power positions. It underlines on different scales—from the lab to international organizations or states—how the masculine culture of technoscientific practices has assigned women to subaltern institutional positions, while social practices of legitimization and recognition ended up granting some women access to leadership positions outside of institutions. With a broad geographic, political, and disciplinary scope, the contributors draw on a variety of new sources including interviews, private collections, and archives to examine the institutions, structures, and policies that shaped the technosciences, as well as the individuals who developed practices and environments that gained agency for themselves and their contemporaries.This book will be of interest to students and scholars alike interested in women and gender studies, political studies, STS, history, and sociology of science and technology.Chapters 1 and 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-04-02
Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt700 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Antal sidor274
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032879826

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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.

Part 1: Perspectives on Gender and the Government of the Technosciences1. To “Make a fuss”. Gender and Governance in the Historiography of Science and TechnologyDonald L. Opitz and Brigitte Van Tiggelen2. Construction of the Global Surveys of Physicists and Scientists (1999-2020): Gender and LeadershipRachel Ivie, Irvy M.A. Gledhill and Silvina Ponce DawsonPart 2: Gender and Technoscientific Policies3. Women, Science, and Empowerment: The International Federation of University Women (1920s-1930s)Anna Cabanel4. Abortions, Eugenics, and Artificial Reproduction in the Soviet Union, 1920-1936Alexei Kojevnikov and Kirill Rossiianov5. Governing Psychiatry: The Importance of Networks for Brazilian Women Psychiatrists 1941 – 1970Valentine Mercier and Ygor Martins 6. Women in Soviet Meteorology and Climatology: Governing Blindness towards Gender, 1919-1991Katja Doose7. “One woman started it all”. Gendered Approaches to Governance of Knowledge in Postwar GreeceLoukas Freris and Maria Rentetzi8. “She was only a post-doc”: Governing Science by Lab Directors and the Vanishing Credit of Women in the Discovery of RNA SplicingPnina Geraldine Abir-AmPart 3: Individual Paths in Governing the Technosciences9. When the ‘Lady of Washington’ Explored Men’s Work: Industrial Medicine, Labour and Gender in Early Twentieth-Century AmericaJudith Rainhorn10. Feminism behind Science in the United States: Women’s Governance and Leadership in Reproductive SciencesAngeline Durand-Vallot11. Women with Transmitters: Female Engineers and the Gendering of Technology in the Soviet UnionEkaterina Rybkina12. The Women Who Count: Gendering Calculations in the Soviet Atomic ProjectGalina Orlova and Aleksandra Kasatkina13. How to Save a Soviet Nature Reserve: The Strategies of Dr. Vera VarsanofievaOlga Valkova 14. Forging a New Archaeological Discipline in the Kitchen: The Volunteer Career of Arlette Leroi-GourhanGwendoline Torterat