Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science since 1660

Claire G. Jones is a Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. Her principal area of research is gender and science in the nineteenth century in Britain. She is author of Femininity, Mathematics and Science, 1880-1914 (2009) and co-editor of Women and Science: Special Issue of Notes and Records of the Royal Society (2015). Alison E. Martin is Professor of British Studies at the Germersheim faculty of the Johannes Gutenberg Universität-Mainz, Germany, which specialises in Translation Studies and Interpreting. She has published widely on translation studies, travel literature, scientific writing and gender. Her most recent monograph is Nature Translated: Alexander von Humboldt’s Works in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).Alexis Wolf is a Research Associate in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. Her research focuses on women's writing of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, including in the areas of medicine and antiquarianism. She is currently working on her first book, which examines manuscript circulation within women’s transnational networks in the Romantic period.

“This is a remarkable book. … In this book, one gets an enormous amount of details and information, about the educational problems regarding women, as well as very complete details about the life of the women involved.” (Robert W. van der Waall, zbMATH 1530.01004, 2024)“The Handbook is impressive both in the range of topics it covers and in the number of perspectives it brings together. … the Handbook offers innovative frameworks and vocabularies for scholarly work on women in science. … The volume is an accessible, well-researched and necessary addition to the literature, and a firm foundation on which further scholarship should build.” (Grace Exley, The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 56 (4), December, 2023)

• Part I: Introduction.- 1. Women in the History of Science: Frameworks, Themes and Contested Perspectives- Claire G. Jones, Alison E. Martin and Alexis Wolf.- Part II: Strategies and Networks.- 2. The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: Nature, Self-Knowing Matter, and the Dialogic Universe- Brandie R. Siegfried.- 3. Navigating Enlightenment Science: The Case of Marie Genèvieve-Charlotte Darlus Thiroux D’Arconville and Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier De Breteuil and the Republic of Letters- Leigh Whaley.- 4. ‘A Valuable Gift’: The Medical Life of Margaret Mason, Lady Mount Cashell- Alexis Wolf.- 5. Janet Taylor (1804-1870): Mathematical Instrument Maker and Teacher of Navigation- John S. Croucher.- 6. Early Female Geologists: The Importance of Professional and Educational Societies during the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries- Cynthia V. Burek.- Part III: Making Women Visible: Institutions, Archives, and Inclusion.- 7. Where are the Women? How Archives can Reveal Hidden Women in Science- Anne Barrett.- 8. ‘A Very Worthy Lady’: Women Lecturing at the Royal Geographical Society, 1913 – C.1940- Sarah L. Evans.- 9. Women at the Royal Society Soirée Before the Great War- Claire G. Jones.- 10. Career Paths Dependent and Supported: The Role of Women’s Universities in Ensuring Access to STEM Education and Research Careers in Japan- Naonori Kodate and Kashiko Kodate.- 11.Internationalism and Women Mathematicians at the University of Göttingen- Renate Tobies.- Part IV: Cultures of Science.- 12.Astronomy, Education and the Herschel Family: From Caroline to Constance- Emily Winterburn.- 13.Domestic Astronomy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries- Gabriella Bernardi.- 14.Darwin and the Feminists: Nineteenth-Century Debates about Female Inferiority- Amanda M. Caleb.- 15.Women, Gender and Computing: The Social Shaping of a Technical Field from Ada Lovelace’s Algorithm to Anita Borg’s ‘Systers’- Corinna Schlombs.- 16. The Cultural Context of Gendered Science: India- Carol C. Mukhopadhyay.- 17.A Seat at the Table: Women and the Periodic System- Annette Lykknes and Brigitte Van Tiggelen.- Part V: Science Communication.- 18. Mediating Knowledge: Women Translating Science- Alison E. Martin.-  19. Queen Lovisa Ulrika of Sweden (1720-1782): Philosophe and Collector- Anne E. Harbers and Andrea M. Gáldy.- 20. Marianne North and Scientific Illustration- Philip Kerrigan.- 21.The Cycle of Credit and Phatic Communication in Science: The Case of Catherine Henley- Jordynn Jack.- 22. Rachel Carson: Scientist, Public Educator and Environmentalist- Ruth Watts.- 23.Representing Women Scientists in Science-Based Film and Television- Amy Chambers.- Part VI: Access, Diversity and Practice.- 24. Catalysts, Compilers and Expositors: Rethinking Women’s Pivotal Contributions to Nineteenth Century ‘Physical Sciences’- Mary Orr.- 25.‘The Question is One of Extreme Difficulty’: The Admission of Women to the British and Irish Medical Profession, C. 1850-1920- Laura Kelly.- 26. The Work of British Women Mathematicians during the First World War- June Barrow-Green and Tony Royle.- 27. More than Pioneers – How Women became Professional Engineers before the Mid-Twentieth Century- Nina Baker.- 28.Women and Surgery after the Great War- Claire Brock.- 29. Technology Users vs. Technology Inventors and Why We Should Care- Wendy M. Dubow.