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The history of the modern sciences has long overlooked the significance of domesticity as a physical, social, and symbolic force in the shaping of knowledge production. This book provides a welcome reorientation to our understanding of the making of the modern sciences globally by emphasizing the centrality of domesticity in diverse scientific enterprises.
Contents
Introduction: Domesticity and the Historiography of Science; Donald L. Opitz, Staffan Bergwik, and Brigitte Van Tiggelen 1. Botanizing at Badminton House: The Botanical Pursuits of Mary Somerset, first Duchess of Beaufort; Julie Davies 2. Gender and Space in Enlightenment Science: Madame Dupiery's Scientific Work and Network; Isabelle Lemonon, translated by Laurent Damesin 3. Darwin's Home of Science and the Nature of Domesticity; Paul White 4. The Tensions of Homemade Science in the Work of Henderina Scott and Hertha Ayrton; Claire G. Jones 5. 'My daughters of Ceres': Domestications of Agricultural Science Education for Women; Donald L. Opitz 6. Gender and the Domestication of Wireless Technology in 1920s Pulp Fiction; Katy Price 7. Contemporary Homemade Meteorological Science: Co-constructing the Home and Weather-Climate Knowledge in the UK; Carol Morris and Georgina Endfield 8. Merchants, Scientists, and Artists: Scientific Families and Scientific Practice in Nineteenth Century Greece; Konstantinos Tampakis and George Vlahakis 9. Father, Son, and the Entrepreneurial Spirit: Otto Pettersson, Hans Pettersson, and the Early Twentieth-Century Inheritance of Oceanography; Staffan Bergwik 10. The Laboratory Society: Science and the Family in Sweden, c. 1900-1950; Sven Widmalm 11. Research Cooperation, Learning Processes, and Trust among Plant Scientists: Fictive Kinship, Academic Mobility, and Scientists' Careers; Helena Pettersson 12. 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam': The Family in the Knowledge Economy; Aalok Khandekar 13. Afterword: Science and the Domestic Sphere in the Longue Duree; Alix Cooper
