Domesticity in the making of modern science / edited by Donald L. Opitz, Staffan Bergwik, Brigitte Van Tiggelen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Opitz, Donald L., editor.

Bergwik, Staffan, editor.

Van Tiggelen, Brigitte, 1962- editor.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Social aspects.

Science.

Families.

Home.

Physical Description:

1 volume ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

The fourteen chapters of this volume directly challenge the strong historiographical opposition between science and domesticity by historically analysing the role of domesticity in the making of the modern sciences, especially in astronomy, chemistry horticulture, engineering, meteorology, natural history, oceanography, physics, and radio technology. The authors offer a pioneering reorientation to the traditional emphasis on scientific developments associated with institutional and professional realms by placing at the centre of their analyses such notions of domesticity like the domestic sphere, the household, the home, the family, and kinship - both biological and 'Active.' This reorientation, the editors argue, exposes the centrality of domesticity as a material, social, and symbolic substrate that critically shaped the historical development of the modern sciences globally. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The Estate of Knowledge: Domestic Sites and Scientific Authority

1 Botanizing at Badminton House: The Botanical Pursuits of Mary Somerset, First Duchess of Beaufort / Julie Davies Davies, Julie 19

2 Gender and Space in Enlightenment Science: Madame Dupiéry's Scientific Work and Network / Isabelle Lémonon Lémonon, Isabelle, Laurent Damesin Damesin, Laurent 41

3 Darwin's Home of Science and the Nature of Domesticity / Paul White White, Paul 61

4 The Tensions of Homemade Science in the Work of Henderina Scott and Hertha Ayrton / Claire G. Jones Jones, Claire G. 84

Part II Constructions of Domestic Science and Technology

5 'My Daughters of Ceres': Domestications of Agricultural Science Education for Women / Donald L. Opitz Opitz, Donald L. 107

6 Gender and the Domestication of Wireless Technology in 1920s Pulp Fiction / Katy Price Price, Katy 129

7 Contemporary Homemade Meteorological Science: Co-constructing the Home and Weather-Climate Knowledges in the UK / Carol Morris Morris, Carol, Georgina Endfield Endfield, Georgina 151

Part III Familial Science: Sustaining Knowledge across Generations and Distances

8 Merchants, Scientists, and Artists: Scientific Families and Scientific Practice in Nineteenth-Century Greece / Konstantinos Tampakis Tampakis, Konstantinos, George Vlahakis Vlahakis, George 175

9 Father, Son, and the Entrepreneurial Spirit: Otto Pettersson, Hans Pettersson, and the Early: Twentieth-Century Inheritance of Oceanography / Staffan Bergwik Bergwik, Staffan 192

10 The Laboratory Society: Science and the Family in Sweden, c.1900-1950 / Sven Widmalm Widmalm, Sven 215

11 Research Cooperation, Learning Processes, and Trust among Plant Scientists: Fictive Kinship, Academic Mobility, and Scientists' Careers / Helena Pettersson Pettersson, Helena 241

12 Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Family in the Knowledge Economy / Aalok Khandekar Khandekar, Aalok 259

Part IV Afterword

13 Afterword: Science and the Domestic Sphere in the Longue Durée / Alix Cooper Cooper, Alix 281.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781137492722

1137492724

OCLC:

929030988

Publisher Number:

99965929693