This innovative volume analyzes the historical entanglement of gender, technosciences, and government/governance.
Situated at the crossroad of women and gender studies, science and technology studies, and political sociology, this volume shows the everaccumulating gendered mechanisms that have determined the careers of scientific women and their access to power positions. It underlines on different scalesfrom the lab to international organizations or stateshow the masculine culture of technoscientific practices has assigned women to subaltern institutional positions, while social practices of legitimization and recognition ended up granting some women access to leadership positions outside of institutions. With a broad geographic, political, and disciplinary scope, the contributors draw on a variety of new sources including interviews, private collections, and archives to examine the institutions, structures, and policies that shaped the technosciences, as well as the individuals who developed practices and environments that gained agency for themselves and their contemporaries.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars alike interested in women and gender studies, political studies, STS, history, and sociology of science and technology.
Chapters 1 and 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Part 1: Perspectives on Gender and the Government of the Technosciences
1. To Make a fuss. Gender and Governance in the Historiography of Science
and Technology
Donald L. Opitz and Brigitte Van Tiggelen
2. Construction of the Global Surveys of Physicists and Scientists
(1999-2020): Gender and Leadership
Rachel Ivie, Irvy M.A. Gledhill and Silvina Ponce Dawson
Part 2: Gender and Technoscientific Policies
3. Women, Science, and Empowerment: The International Federation of
University Women (1920s-1930s)
Anna Cabanel
4. Abortions, Eugenics, and Artificial Reproduction in the Soviet Union,
1920-1936
Alexei Kojevnikov and Kirill Rossiianov
5. Governing Psychiatry: The Importance of Networks for Brazilian Women
Psychiatrists 1941 1970
Valentine Mercier and Ygor Martins
6. Women in Soviet Meteorology and Climatology: Governing Blindness towards
Gender, 1919-1991
Katja Doose
7. One woman started it all. Gendered Approaches to Governance of Knowledge
in Postwar Greece
Loukas Freris and Maria Rentetzi
8. She was only a post-doc: Governing Science by Lab Directors and the
Vanishing Credit of Women in the Discovery of RNA Splicing
Pnina Geraldine Abir-Am
Part 3: Individual Paths in Governing the Technosciences
9. When the Lady of Washington Explored Mens Work: Industrial Medicine,
Labour and Gender in Early Twentieth-Century America
Judith Rainhorn
10. Feminism behind Science in the United States: Womens Governance and
Leadership in Reproductive Sciences
Angeline Durand-Vallot
11. Women with Transmitters: Female Engineers and the Gendering of Technology
in the Soviet Union
Ekaterina Rybkina
12. The Women Who Count: Gendering Calculations in the Soviet Atomic Project
Galina Orlova and Aleksandra Kasatkina
13. How to Save a Soviet Nature Reserve: The Strategies of Dr. Vera
Varsanofieva
Olga Valkova
14. Forging a New Archaeological Discipline in the Kitchen: The Volunteer
Career of Arlette Leroi-Gourhan
Gwendoline Torterat
Grégory Dufaud is Professor of contemporary history at Université Polytechnique HautsdeFrance, France. He is a historian of twentiethcentury Russia who specializes in history of science. His latest book, Une histoire de la psychiatrie soviétique (2021), was awarded the Prix Jean Garrabé from the Société de lÉvolution psychiatrique.
Isabelle LemononWaxin, a physicist and historian of science, is an associate researcher of Cermes3 and Centre Franēois Viete (France). Her Ph.D. dissertation La Savante des Lumičres franēaises (EHESS, France) has been awarded a DHST Dissertation Prize in 2021. She is an officer of the Commission on Women and Gender in History of Science, Technology and Medicine of the DHSTIUHPST.
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