Science as a Career in Enlightenment Italy: The Strategies of Laura Bassi

Findlen, Paula

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“…More importantly, both assert that the men of the Enlightenment esteemed the work of women such as Laura Bassi and the French salonnières. 60 The evidence they provide counters more traditional views in European women's history that presume that a consensus existed concerning women's 'proper' domestic role and their 'feeble' intellect and that this concensus kept women from wielding power.…”

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Elisabetta Mosconi's Letters to Giovanni Antonio Scopoli: A Noble Marriage Negotiation at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century in Verona

Dalton

1999

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Elisabetta Mosconi's Letters to Giovanni Antonio Scopoli: A Noble Marriage Negotiation at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century in Verona

Dalton

1999

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“…En 1776, el Senado de Bolonia le concedió la cátedra de física experimental en el Instituto de Ciencias y con esto se convirtió en la primera mujer nombrada para una cátedra de física en una universidad europea. No obstante, a pesar de ser parte del exclusivo grupo de 25 científicos de la Academia de Ciencias de Bolonia, el nombramiento de Laura Bassi fue controversial y nunca tuvo los mismos privilegios que sus compañeros (Gregersen, 2011;Frize, 2013).…”

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Desigualdad de género en la entrega de los Premios Nobel 1901-2020

Álvarez

2021

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La participación femenina en la investigación científica ha sido poco valorada. Esto lo demuestra la entrega del Premio Nobel, máximo galardón otorgado para laurear el trabajo de eminentes personajes del mundo académico. Existe una evidente desigualdad de género en el otorgamiento anual de esta distinción pues, de 1901 a 2020, solamente 23 mujeres la han obtenido en las áreas científicas y solo tres de ellas la han ganado en solitario, puesto que el resto la han compartido. Esto se debe, en parte, a las pocas oportunidades que tenían las mujeres en el siglo pasado para acceder a la educación superior y para realizar investigaciones científicas y, a pesar de que esto ha cambiado con el transcurrir de los años hasta los albores del nuevo milenio, el número de mujeres científicas aún es bajo. El objetivo de este trabajo es realizar una revisión de los logros de algunas mujeres científicas a lo largo de la historia y evidenciar el poco reconocimiento que se les ha dado. Concretamente en el caso del reconocimiento a mujeres a partir del siglo XX, se extrajeron los datos registrados en el sitio web del Premio Nobel (Nobel Prize, 2021) y se realizó un análisis para determinar la frecuencia con la que el galardón ha sido entregado a mujeres en las áreas de Física, Química, Fisiología y Medicina. Se realizó también una breve revisión bibliográfica sobre la obra de las ganadoras, así como de algunas eminentes mujeres que dedicaron su vida a la ciencia y que tuvieron importantes logros en ella, aunque no fueron reconocidas en su momento.

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“…39 Throughout the 1990s, Schiebinger, Paula Findlen, and others both continued to expand the boundaries of the discipline and also resuscitated many women who had been excluded from the history of science, such as Laura Bassi, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, and Maria Sybilla Merian, women who had been engaged in areas that could be seen as protoscientific. 40 Francesca Bray's innovative Technology and Gender examined clothmaking by women in China and showed how technology produces identity and subjectivity: the modes by which women produced cloth also produced categories of womanhood. 41 In a similar vein, recent work has demonstrated the centrality of gender to views of nature in the early modern period.…”

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Science on the Move: Recent Trends in the History of Early Modern Science^*

Smith

2009

Renaiss. Q.

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O ne of the most important developments of the period ca. 1400-1750, which I will call early modern, was the rise of a new philosophy, the new experimental science. 1 This used to be understood as a history of European achievement from the Renaissance forward, a universe-changing paradigm shift that defined the modern world. There is no doubt that the growth of modern science forms one of the most significant phenomena of the modern age, affirmed today in the massive public and private funding for research into natural science and medicine. But the question for the historian is, What does this modern phenomenon have to do with the early modern period? The last generation has been an exciting time to come of age in the history of science: the field has definitively emerged from its beginnings in the history of philosophy, intellectual history, and the discrete histories of sciences written by and for their practitioners, to offer answers to * I am grateful to Marty Elsky and Sheila Rabin for inviting me to write this article, and for their patience in receiving it. In writing this essay, I had before me the previous two

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Science as a Career in Enlightenment Italy: The Strategies of Laura Bassi

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Elisabetta Mosconi's Letters to Giovanni Antonio Scopoli: A Noble Marriage Negotiation at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century in Verona

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Desigualdad de género en la entrega de los Premios Nobel 1901-2020

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