Women and science, 17th century to present : pioneers, activists and protagonists / edited by Donna Spalding Andréolle and Véronique Molinari.

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

xxv, 272 pages, [12] pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 21 cm

Auto didactism and the construction of scientific discourse in early modern England: Margaret Cavendish's and Anne Conway's "intellectual bricolage" / Sandrine Parageau -- Invisible assistants and translated texts: d'Arconville and practical chemistry in Enlightenment France / Margaret Carlyle -- Maria Sibylla Merian: the first ecologist? / Kay Etheridge -- Anatomy of the female angel or science at the service of woman in Woman and her era by Eliza Farnham / Claire Sorin -- Promoting eugenics and maternalism: women doctors and marriage counselling in Weimar Germany / Melissa Kravetz -- Women and the pursuit of scientific knowledge in mid-Victorian Dublin / Clara Cullen -- "Schools of their own": the Ladies' Medical College and the London School of Medicine for women / Veronique Molinari.

Elizabeth Blackwell, "The singular women doctor": representing and locating the pioneer woman physician in the nineteenth century / Helene Quanquin -- Representations of women in the history of science in France: going beyond names without faces, faces without accomplishments / Lindsay Blake Wilson -- The male tempo of engineering: coeds adapt to Georgia Tech / Amy Bix -- Women of science fiction: romantic mythologies and female emancipation from John Keats to Dan Simmons / Caroline Bertoneche -- "The labours of omen of genius": Frankenstein, fertility and the female scientist in the work of Alasdair Gray / David Leishman -- Impossible dialogues?: science in American feminist science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s / Donna Spalding Andreolle -- Women and science in Japanese Anime: a challenge to the traditional construction of female identity / Yukihide Endo.

Includes bibliographical references.