Pandora's Breeches

Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment

Patricia Fara

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English

Pimlico
04 December 2017

Gender studies: women; History of science; Popular science

An original and highly readable exploration of the role of women in the history of science.

'Had God intended Women merely as a finer sort of cattle, he would not have made them reasonable.'

Writing in 1673, Bathsua Makin was one of the first women to insist that girls should receive a scientific education.

Despite the efforts of Makin and her successors, women were excluded from universities until the end of the nineteenth century, yet they found other ways to participate in scientific projects.

Taking a fresh look at history, Pandora's Breeches investigates how women contributed to scientific progress. As well as collaborating in home-based research, women corresponded with internationally-renowned scholars, hired tutors, published their own books and translated and simplified important texts, such as Newton's book on gravity. They played essential roles in work frequently attributed solely to their husbands, fathers or friends.

By: Patricia Fara
Imprint: Pimlico
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 284g
ISBN: 9781845952457
ISBN 10: 1845952456
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 04 December 2017
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Patricia Fara is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, where she lectures on the History and Philosophy of Science. She is the author of several highly acclaimed books, including- Newton- The Making of Genius, An Entertainment for Angels- Electricity and Enlightenment and Sex, Botany and Empire- The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks.

Reviews for Pandora's Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment

Cool in appraisal, balanced in argument and, in my book, an essential read -- Graeme Fife * BBC History Magazine * This illustrates different ways in which women have contributed powerfully to the growth of science...[with] fluent style and a determined attempt to make the history of science readily understood as a social construct * Times Higher Education Supplement * Excellent... Fascinating in its details, Pandora's Breeches is also groundbreaking in the way it reframes the history of science * Guardian *