History of women in the sciences : readings from Isis / edited by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt.

Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press, [1999], ©1999.

379 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm

ised / Carolyn Merchant.-- Managing an experimental household: the Dees of Mortlake and the practice of natural philosophy / Deborah E. Harkness.-- Maria Winkelman at the Berlin Academy: a turning point for women in science / Londa Schiebinger.-- Science as a career in enlightenment Italy: the strategies of Laura Bassi / Paula Findlen.-- Botany for gentlemen: Erasmus Darwin and the loves of the plants / Janet Browne.-- Goethe's botany: lessons of a feminine science / Lisbet Koerner.-- The American career of Jane Marcet's conversations on chemistry, 1806-1853 / M. Susan Lindee.-- Parlors, primers, and public schooling: education for science in nineteenth- century America / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt.-- Science education for women in Antebellum America / Deborah Jean Warner.-- Science, women, and the Russian intelligentsia: the generation of the 1860s / Ann Hibner Koblitz.-- Women astronomers in Britain, 1780-1930 / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell.-- "A lab of one's own" : the Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women at Cambridge University, 1884-1914 / Marsha L. Richmond.-- Race and gender : the role of analogy in science / Nancy Leys Stepan.-- "Women's work" in science, 1880-1910 / Margaret W. Rossiter.-- Physiology in American women's colleges: the rise and decline of a female subculture / Toby A. Appel.-- Nettie M. Stevens and the discovery of sex determination by chromosomes / Stephen G. Brush.-- Marcella O'Grady Boveri (1863-1950): her three careers in biology / Margaret R. Wright.

Includes bibliographical references and index.