Women in Science

Ruth Watts is Professor of History of Education at the University ofBirmingham. Her research interests are in the history of education andgender and publications include Gender, Power and the Unitarians inEngland, 1760-1860.

'An essential resource for student assignments.' - BBC History Magazine'Recommended. Undergraduates.'- CHOICE'Watts has provided an invaluable resource...She sysnthesises the significant literature, adds new knowledge and makes the whole accessible to a wide audience. This was sorely needed' - Claire Jones, University of Liverpool'Her book goes beyond synthesis in important ways, exetending discussion and asking new questions...It promises to be an invaluable resource for many audiences' - Women's History Magazine

• 1. Science, Gender and Education 2. From the Fifth Century CE to the Sixteenth: Learned Celibacy or Knowledgeable Housewifery 3. Dangerous Knowledge: Science, Gender and the Beginnings of Modernism 4. Education in Science and the Science of Education in the Long Eighteenth Century 5. Radical Networks in Education and Science in Britain from the Mid Eighteenth Century to c. 1815 6. An Older and a Newer World: Networks of Science 7. Science Comes of Age: Male Patriarchs and Women Serving Science? 8. Medicine, Education and Gender from c.1902–44 with a Case Study of Birmingham 9. Asking Questions of Science: The Significance of Gender and Education