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E-book Women in the History of Science : A Sourcebook
We are inspired by and support UCL’s programme to liberate the curriculum alongside other programmes with similar aims. Women are too often excluded in the history of science, and this book aims to recover the voices, works and experiences of women in the production of knowledge through primary sources. This book offers university lecturers and tutors a diverse range of materials that could easily augment existing history of science, history, literature, geography, anthropology, gender studies and sociology courses to include women.Women in the History of Science aims to expand notions of participation and investigation in the production of knowledge. This book challenges what science is and what science does. In doing so, the activities of women and less celebrated figures in the history of science become more visible. The parts do not replicate traditional accounts of the history of science that focus on the great and famous figures of invention and discovery, who are most often portrayed as men, but bring to light how women of many different backgrounds engaged with the production of knowledge both in formal scientific projects and in their everyday lives. In the last 50 years, scholars have challenged how we think of the history of science. Rather than approaching science as a linear discovery of facts and theories, scholars are now investigating how knowledge is made in specific times, places and cultures.3 Instead of focusing on famous inventors or lone geniuses, campaigns such as the History Workshop Movement bring attention to history from below and how science is a fundamental part of larger society. In the field of Science and Technology Studies, scholars in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (SSK) movement sought to ground explanations of science within specific social contexts. More recently, the global turn in the history of science has challenged traditional Eurocentric narratives and explored a definition of science which moves beyond elite knowledge and practices to acknowledge the global history of science and knowledge-making.
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