Negotiating in/Visibility

Amelia Bonea is Lecturer in Global History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester Irina Nastasa-Matei is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Bucharest

'Negotiating in/visibility” advances the history of women in science in two ways. It multiplies the sites at which we look for scientific work, foregrounding schools, homes and voluntary associations alongside laboratories and clinics. It also shows that the politics of visibility must be studied within networks of travel, translation and pedagogy, not only within the walls of institutions. For historians of science, technology and medicine, as well as for gender historians and STS scholars, this is a collection to assign and to argue with. It is a model of how edited volumes can extend a field’s archive while sharpening its conceptual tools.'Masha Bratishcheva, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, H-Soz-Kult

• Foreword - Mariko OgawaAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction: In/visible women, science, engineering and medicine in the twentieth century - Amelia Bonea and Irina Nastasa-MateiI Laboratory cultures: Visible scientific rebels, invisible innovators1 Breaking down the barriers at Cambridge in the 1930s: Reinet Maasdorp’s experience at Rutherford’s Cavendish Laboratory - Kathryn Keeble2 ‘Your research is crap, do not bother to apply again’: Female evolutionary biology theorists as scientific rebels and oppositional scientists - Nuala Caomhánach3 Women’s invisibility in public memory of the discovery of RNA splicing: Converging biases of gender, race and mentorship - Pnina Geraldine Abir-AmII In/visibilities across borders: Scientific collaborations and contestations4 Inventing a career across borders in the early 1930s: The case of cytogeneticists Eileen W. Erlanson and E. K. Janaki Ammal - Savithri Preetha Nair 5 Vlasta Kálalová Di-Lotti in Iraq: Medical practice and scientific research - Adéla Junová Macková 6 Early years of the International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists: Shaping transnational collaboration in the Cold War era, 1964-1975 - Emily Rees Koerner and Graeme GoodayIII In/visibilities in medicine and care: Treating, teaching, reforming7 ‘A model of devotion to the school’: Female doctors in secondary schools in interwar Romania - Camelia Zavarache 8 Women and the practice of Western medicine in late Republican China: Evidence from Sichuan - Jean Corbi9 Agency and coercion: Fighting ‘women’s illnesses’ with grassroots science and medicine during the Great Famine in China, 1958-1962 - Kathryn Edgerton-TarpleyIV Intimate knowledge and in/visible domesticities: Science, medicine and the home10 The curious case of Yashoda Devi, a woman Ayurvedic practitioner in colonial India - Saurav Kumar Rai11 Lady Irwin College: Domestic science post-secondary education for three women graduates in India - Anne Hardgrove12 Clara Park: A mother’s intimate knowledge and child science - Marga VicedoV Towards visible change? Publics, pedagogies and politics of science13 The valuable ‘s’: Publics and counterpublics of abortion and contraception in late twentieth-century Greece - Evangelia Chordaki14 The power of autobiography: Documenting women scientists through a lecture series at the University of Illinois - Bethany G. Anderson and Kristen Allen Wilson15 How to do science as a woman and laugh? Insights and lessons from Hungary - Andrea Peto