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Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices
Maria Rentetzi
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Description for Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices
Surveys the materials and experimental practices of radioactivity research in early twentieth century Vienna, focusing on radioactive materials, instruments, women's work in physics, and gendered skills. This title shows how experimental cultures in radioactivity are constructed and reshaped by politics as well as scientists of different genders. Series: Gutenberg-E. Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JJC; HBTB; PDN; PDX; PN; TBX. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 656.
Maria Rentetzi surveys the experimental practices of radioactivity research in early-twentieth-century Vienna, focusing on radioactive materials, instruments, women's work in physics, and gendered skills. She shows how experimental cultures in radioactivity-scientific practices employed by gendered subjects who shared a certain material and epistemic style of research--were constructed and reshaped by socialist politics in Vienna at that time. She also explores the different ways experimental practices affected men and women in laboratory sciences. Rentetzi expands the notion of material culture to include not only instruments and objects but also materials that operated as both commodities and objects of scientific inquiry. ... Read more
Maria Rentetzi surveys the experimental practices of radioactivity research in early-twentieth-century Vienna, focusing on radioactive materials, instruments, women's work in physics, and gendered skills. She shows how experimental cultures in radioactivity-scientific practices employed by gendered subjects who shared a certain material and epistemic style of research--were constructed and reshaped by socialist politics in Vienna at that time. She also explores the different ways experimental practices affected men and women in laboratory sciences. Rentetzi expands the notion of material culture to include not only instruments and objects but also materials that operated as both commodities and objects of scientific inquiry. ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Series
Gutenberg-E
Number of Pages
316
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231135580
SKU
V9780231135580
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99-15
About Maria Rentetzi
Maria Rentetzi is an assistant professor at the National Technical University of Athens in Greece. She teaches science and technology studies, and her articles have appeared in journals such as Isis, the British Journal for History of Science, Centauraus, Endeavour, and Nuncius. Her forthcoming book deals with the development of nuclear science and technology in Greece after the Second World ... Read more
Reviews for Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices
[A] valuable and fascinating book.
Dr. Ivelin Kuleff Chemistry A provocative and pathbreaking interdisciplinary work.
Marsha L. Richmond Journal of the History of Biology A splendid achievement, accessible and innovative in form and content. Highly recommended.
Jeff Hughes Physics in Perspective the rich picture of the working life of a significant scientific center presented here remains a ... Read more
Dr. Ivelin Kuleff Chemistry A provocative and pathbreaking interdisciplinary work.
Marsha L. Richmond Journal of the History of Biology A splendid achievement, accessible and innovative in form and content. Highly recommended.
Jeff Hughes Physics in Perspective the rich picture of the working life of a significant scientific center presented here remains a ... Read more