Negotiating in/visibility

This volume explores, from global, multilingual and intersectional perspectives, the experiences of women in science, engineering and medicine in the twentieth century. Some, like the American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis, were fairly visible actors in the academic and public arenas of profe...

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description This volume explores, from global, multilingual and intersectional perspectives, the experiences of women in science, engineering and medicine in the twentieth century. Some, like the American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis, were fairly visible actors in the academic and public arenas of professional science. Others, like the doctors working in secondary schools in interwar Romania or those who struggled to alleviate ‘women’s illnesses’ in famine-stricken rural areas during China’s Great Leap Forward, have been largely invisible – as medical practitioners, creators of knowledge, educators and subjects of historical inquiry. The volume investigates the nature and extent of women’s in/visibility in science, engineering and medicine in the twentieth century, seeking to document the factors that underpinned it and understand how women navigated their circumstances. When and why did women become invisible? When and how did they seek visibility? Was invisibility always a form of discrimination, exclusion and misrecognition or could it also become a strategy of resistance and survival? Drawing on hitherto-little-explored archives in Asia, Europe and North America, the contributors examine the in/visibility of women across multiple sites of medical practice, science-making, pedagogy and communication, such as the laboratory, the university, the clinic, the hospital, the home, the school and the media. They show that invisibility was the outcome of power asymmetries based on intersecting factors like gender, race, ethnicity, class, caste and age, and that women were not only present in science, engineering and medicine, but also exercised considerable agency in trying to negotiate institutional and intellectual hierarchies.
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spellingShingle communication networks
decolonization
discrimination
domestic sphere
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gender roles
grassroots science
knowledge production
laboratory culture
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Nobel Prize
science communication
twentieth century
women in science
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Negotiating in/visibility
title Negotiating in/visibility
title_full Negotiating in/visibility
title_fullStr Negotiating in/visibility
title_full_unstemmed Negotiating in/visibility
title_short Negotiating in/visibility
title_sort negotiating in visibility
topic communication networks
decolonization
discrimination
domestic sphere
gender equality
gender roles
grassroots science
knowledge production
laboratory culture
marginalization
multingual archive
Nobel Prize
science communication
twentieth century
women in science
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine
thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
topic_facet communication networks
decolonization
discrimination
domestic sphere
gender equality
gender roles
grassroots science
knowledge production
laboratory culture
marginalization
multingual archive
Nobel Prize
science communication
twentieth century
women in science
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine
thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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