1. Science, gender and education 2. Discovering women in science and education 3. Knowledge and power in ancient Alexandria 4. Obedient servants of God and man 5. Science, gender and the beginnings of modernism 6. Education in science and the science of education in the long eighteenth century 7. An older and newer world: networks of science in nineteenth century England 8. Science comes of age 9. The significance of gender and identity
Biography
Ruth Watts is Professor of History of Education at the University of Birmingham. Her research interests are in the history of education and gender and publications include Gender, Power and the Unitarians in England, 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
