Teaching women's work and thought in undergraduate history of science courses

As a rich field of scholarship now demonstrates, from at least the early modern period, women have consistently contributed to natural philosophy, science, and medicine in Europe and the Anglo-American world. Their participation in these fields, like men's, has been shaped by gendered social an...

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Main Author: Yale, Elizabeth (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2023
In: History compass
Year: 2023, Volume: 21, Issue: 9
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