Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie,
Women in science, antiquity through the nineteenth century
. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1986. Pp. xi 4- 254, £24.75. ISBN 0-262-15031-X Margaret Alic,
Hypatia's heritage: a history of women in science from antiquity to the late nineteenth century
. London: The Women’s Press, 1986. Pp. ix + 230, £4.95. ISBN 0-7043-3954-4 Londa Schiebinger,
The mind has no sex? Women in the origins of modem science
. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989. Pp. xi + 355, £23.50. ISBN 0-674-57623-3 Patricia Phillips,
The scientific lady: a social history of woman's scientific interests 1520-1918
. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990. Pp. xiii + 279, £25.00. ISBN 0-297-82043-5
Uneasy careers and intimate lives: women in science, 1789-1979
. Edited by Pnina G. Abir-Am & Dorinda Outram. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. Pp. xiii + 365, £11.00. ISBN 0-8135-1255-7
Women of science: righting the record
. Edited by G. Kass-Simon & Patricia Fames. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1990. Pp. xvi + 398, $39.95. ISBN 0-253-33264-8 Not long ago women were largely absent from the histories of science, even from social histories of science. With the 1960s came the questions: where were the women? how to do them justice? were there so few? why so few? Several books have now addressed these difficult questions. Charles Darwin gave an answer to the last question, by including ‘the intellectual powers of the sexes’ with the secondary sexual characteristics discussed in
The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex
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