Science, Women, and the Russian Intelligentsia: The Generation of the 1860s

Koblitz, Ann Hibner

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“…For example, pre-revolutionary Russia to about 1900 had more women receiving doctorates in mathematics than in the next 20 years. The numbers start to rise again in the experimental 1920s (Koblitz, 1988a;Lapidus, 1978).…”

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Mathematics and the Historian’s Craft

Brummelen¹,

Kinyon²

2005

CMS Books in Mathematics

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Mathematics and the Historian’s Craft

Brummelen¹,

Kinyon²

2005

CMS Books in Mathematics

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“…Female scholars migrated to countries where access came relatively early, for example to Switzerland (1867) and France (1881). Russian women of the 1860s-70s were among the most mobile of the degree-seeking migrants (Koblitz, 1988). These pioneers of women's education in Europe were among the first female students admitted for degrees, and their doctorates were the first for women in mathematics, chemistry, biology and medicine (Goegg, 1884, p. 388-389).…”

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“…Their enthusiasm found a ready opportunity in Tsar Alexander II's late 1850s investment in training (male) scientists as rapidly as possible. The influx of young Nihilists into science classrooms created a welcoming environment for women, although, as elsewhere, the first women admitted to Russian universities were limited to auditor status (Koblitz, 1988). Barred from the university when Alexander II put down student demonstrations in 1861, Russian women traveled to western Europe, primarily to Switzerland, where foreign students could be admitted to university without an entrance exam (Koblitz, 1988).…”

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Women in glaciology, a historical perspective

Hulbe¹,

Wang

Ommanney³

2010

J. Glaciol.

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Women’s history in glaciology extends as far back in time as the discipline itself, although their contributions to the scientific discourse have for all of that history been constrained by the sociopolitical contexts of the times. The firstJournal of Glaciologypaper authored by a woman appeared in 1948, within a year of the founding of theJournal, but it was not until the 1980s that women produced more than a few percent ofJournalandAnnals of Glaciologypapers. Here international perspectives on women’s participation in the sciences are presented in order to establish an economic and sociopolitical context for stories of women ‘pioneers’ in glaciology and a frame in which to discuss women’s persistent under-representation relative to men. We find that the experiences of individual glaciologists mirror women’s experiences in higher education and the sciences as a whole. The existence of both positive and negative trends in women’s participation in the sciences suggests caution in the interpretation of recent positive trends for women’s participation in glaciology.

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“…4 The natural sciences also preoccupied the shestidesiatniki. 5 While European radicals took interest in the great discoveries of the nineteenth century, they typically invested their intellectual energies in political theory and the social sciences. 6 For a brief period, however, Russian radicals drew their inspiration largely from the life sciences and, in contrast to their European counterparts, held that ideological commitment required active participation in scientific endeavors as well as the ability to apply scientific findings to a critique of social life.…”

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Love, Science, and Politics in the Fiction of Shestidesiatnitsy N. P. Suslova and S. V. Kovalevskaia

Pozefsky

1999

The Russian Review

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In the 1860s, Russian radicalism evolved from a handful of circles into an independent subculture and the beginnings of a revolutionary movement. 1 The most important recent work on the 1860s attributes this dramatic shift to the emergence of "new principles of behavior," among which a new attitude toward love was the essential element. 2 The nihilists, or shestidesiatniki, as the members of this early radical generation were known, transformed their erotic relationships and the practice of courtship into signs of ideological affiliation. They rejected the eloquence, gentle manners, meticulous grooming, and aristocratic dress of polite society in favor of their own argot, fashion, and social mores. In fact, as a cohort, this generation of radicals was recognizable less for any articulated political program than for cultural politics which called into question traditional forms of social life and were expressed through the medium of everyday life-in clothes, speech, and social conduct. Most notorious were the nigilistki (nihilist women) who traded their hooped skirts and crinolines for black jumpers, wore blue-tinted glasses, smoked cigarettes, cropped their hair, and received men unaccompanied by chaperones. 3 Memoirs, periodicals, police records, and literary sources all suggest that radicals viewed the trans-Research for this project was supported by generous grants from the Luce and Ralston Funds of the College of Wooster. I would like to thank Hilde Hoogenboom for introducing me to the work of Suslova and Kovalevskaia and the two referees for The Russian Review for their thoughtful comments.1 Daniel Brower, Training the Nihilists (Ithaca, 1975); Michael Confino, "On Intellectual Origins and Intellectual Traditions," Daedalus 25 (Spring 1972); Michael Confino, "Révolte juvénile et contre-culture: les nihilistes russes des années 60," Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique 31

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Science, Women, and the Russian Intelligentsia: The Generation of the 1860s

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Mathematics and the Historian’s Craft

Mathematics and the Historian’s Craft

Women in glaciology, a historical perspective

Love, Science, and Politics in the Fiction of Shestidesiatnitsy N. P. Suslova and S. V. Kovalevskaia

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