science, gender, and visual culture
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Shteir, Ann B. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Lightman, Bernard > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Marchessault, Janine
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2006
- Thesaurus
- bètawetenschappen, biologie, gender, iconografie, lichamen, man vrouw verschillen, vrouwbeelden
- Description
- A collection of fifteen original essays analyzing gender in the imagery of science.The book focuses on visual and figural images as a way to study the workings of gender in science, and on gender as a way to examine how images in science contain and convey meaning. Roughly chronological in organization, part one focuses on mythological and metaphorical depictions of gender in early frontispieces, while part two looks at realistic images such as photos, illustrations, and exhibits from the nineteenth century. Part three highlights the workings of cultural norms of gender in twentieth-century science, illustrated through discussions of photos, television shows, advertising, and digital imagery. A common theme in the book is an emphasis on questions of representation and interpretive problems such as agency and identity. The volume explores a host of themes, including the gendered cultures of science and medicine, technologies of display, and the role of sexualities and sexual difference in the construction of figural vocabularies of science.