Opportunities for women in early genetics

Richmond, Marsha L.

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After having long been excluded from scientific activity, or relegated to minor roles as "invisible technicians" (Shapin 1989), victims of "hierarchical segregation" (Rossiter 1982) in different fields of biology, and in genetics in particular (Richmond 2007), women have laid siege to the professional and cultural field of science. They rival their male colleagues.

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Is Sociobiology Amendable? Feminist and Darwinian women biologists confront the paradigm of sexual selection

Hoquet

2010

Diogenes (Engl. ed.)

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Is it possible to be a socio-biologist and a feminist? Socio-biology has been accused of being a macho ideological arsenal, which seems to exclude in advance any possibility of amending it. However that was the project of several female researchers (in particular S. B. Hrdy and P. A. Gowaty), who suggested adopting the science’s theoretical framework in order to change it from within. This has been expressed in a change of focus: an appeal to take account of female strategies and their evolution as well as the “sex war” at work in process of reproduction. This opening out of socio-biology’s theoretical framework has not been undertaken in the name of the privilege of a “female perspective” but it has without a doubt been nourished by the researchers’ marginal position in their discipline as well as their political involvement. “Male” contributions, such as W. G. Eberhard’s work on the “female’s cryptic choice”, are also part of this movement though they do not claim allegiance to it. Similarly, a critical study has been carried out on the vocabulary of socio-biology: not in order to exercise a “politically correct” ideological tyranny but to improve the efficiency of the conceptual tools introduced by the science. Today some feminists think feminism should incorporate socio-biology’s results but resistance still remains strong. Though many feminists think feminism has more to bring to biology than the reverse, many biologists consider that feminism is just an ideology that should remain apart from scientific work.

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Is Sociobiology Amendable? Feminist and Darwinian women biologists confront the paradigm of sexual selection

Hoquet

2010

Diogenes (Engl. ed.)

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“…Linked to this tradition are those women who, despite being autodidacts, considered themselves scientists rather than nature writers. Several of the women who either assisted Darwin in his botanical studies or whose own studies were inspired by his evolutionary theory have been studied (Harvey 2009;Gianquitto 2007bGianquitto , 2013Gianquitto 4 (For Britain, see Richmond (Richmond 2001(Richmond , 2006(Richmond , 2007b and Love 1979. For the Netherlands, Norway, and Germany, see Stamhuis (1995), Stamhuis and Monsen (2007), and Stamhuis and Richmond (2014).…”

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Women in the Historiography of Biology

Richmond

2018

Handbook of the Historiography of Biology

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Women no less than men have been drawn to the study of nature, but only after they were given access to higher education were they able to participate in science in greater numbers. The historian's gaze has accordingly been transfixed on the accomplishments of men and a few extraordinarily talented women. This began to change in the 1970s when a new wave of women scholars and feminists turned to recovering the accomplishments of individuals, exploring opportunities and hindrances to women's participation in science, and identifying sexist ideologies and gendered assumptions within biology that influence not only women's ability to do science, but also broader social, economic, and political rights of women. The result is a rich body of literature on women's contributions to, and a feminist critique of, biology.

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“…The appointment of a colleague whose scientific standing was far below her own was probably the last straw. 121 She then spent a few months at the John Innes Horticultural Institute near London, which had been led by William Bateson until his death in 1926. It was certainly no accident that she went here.…”

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Discipline building in Germany: women and genetics at the Berlin Institute for Heredity Research

Stamhuis¹,

Vogt²

2017

Br J Hist Sci

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The origin and the development of scientific disciplines has been a topic of reflection for several decades. The few extensive case studies support the thesis that scientific disciplines are not monolithic structures but can be characterized by distinct social, organizational and scientific-technical practices. Nonetheless, most disciplinary histories of genetics confine themselves largely to an uncontested account of the content of the discipline or occasionally institutional factors. Little attention is paid to the large number of researchers who, by their joint efforts, ultimately shaped the discipline. We contribute to this aspect of disciplinary historiography by discussing the role of women researchers at the Institute for Heredity Research, founded in 1914 in Berlin under the directorship of Erwin Baur, and the sister of the John Innes Institute at Cambridge. This paper investigates how and why Baur built a highly successful research programme that relied on the efforts of his female staff, whose careers, notably Elisabeth Schiemann's, are also assessed in toto. These women undertook the necessary 'technoscience' and in some cases innovative work and helped increase the prestige of the institute and its director. Together they played a pivotal role in the establishment of genetics in Germany. Without them the discipline would have developed much more slowly and along a divergent path.

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Opportunities for women in early genetics

Cited by 17 publications

References 26 publications

Is Sociobiology Amendable? Feminist and Darwinian women biologists confront the paradigm of sexual selection

Is Sociobiology Amendable? Feminist and Darwinian women biologists confront the paradigm of sexual selection

Women in the Historiography of Biology

Discipline building in Germany: women and genetics at the Berlin Institute for Heredity Research

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