1st Edition
Women, Gender, and Technosciences, 1900–2020 A Beard to Govern
Introduction: The Gendered Government of the Technosciences
Grégory Dufaud and Isabelle Lémonon-Waxin
Translated by Robert Fyke
Part I 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 II 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. The Women Who Count: Gendering Calculations in the Soviet Atomic Project
Galina Orlova and Aleksandra Kasatkina
8. “One Woman Started It All”. Gendered Approaches to the Governance of Knowledge in Post-War Greece
Loukas Freris and Maria Rentetzi
Part III Individual Paths in Governing the Technosciences
9. “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
10. When the “Lady of Washington” Explored Men’s Work: Industrial Medicine, Labor, and Gender in Early Twentieth-Century America
Judith Rainhorn
11. Feminism Behind Science in the United States: Women’s Governance and Leadership in Reproductive Sciences
Angeline Durand Vallot
12. Women with Transmitters: Female Engineers and the Gendering of Technology in the Soviet Union
Ekaterina Rybkina
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
15. Afterword: A History to be Continued
Grégory Dufaud and Isabelle Lémonon-Waxin
Revised by Robert Fyke
Biography
Grégory Dufaud is Professor of contemporary history at Université Polytechnique Hauts‑de‑France, France. He is a historian of twentieth‑century 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 l’Évolution psychiatrique.
Isabelle Lemonon‑Waxin, a physicist and historian of science, is an associate researcher of Cermes3 and Centre François Viete (France). Her Ph.D. dissertation La Savante des Lumières françaises (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 DHST‑IUHPST.
