List of figures
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
A note on pronouns
Introduction
PART I: Ancient Ways of Knowing (1200 BCE-900 CE)
1 Tappu¯ti¯-Be¯let-Ekallim (fl. 1200 BCE): A cuneiform tablet on Middle Assyrian perfumery (c. 1200 BCE)
Eduardo A. Escobar (he/him)
2 Circe: An extract from Homer’s Odyssey (c. 900-800 BCE)
Andrew Gregory (he/him)
3 Anonymous: Dialogue of the philosophers and Cleopatra (c. 600-700 CE)
Vincenzo Carlotta (he/him)
4 The Southern Moche Group: A ceramic vessel from coastal Peru (c. 200-900 CE)
Esme Loukota (she/her)
5 Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 350-415 CE): Letter from Synesius of Cyrene to Paeonius (c. 355-415 CE)
Aiste Celkyte (she/her)
PART II: Materials and Manuscripts (900-1570 CE)
6 Ku‘ayba bt. Sa‘d al-Aslamiyya (fl. 620 CE): An extract from Kitab al-tabaqat al-kubra (Book of the Great Generations) (c. 600-900 CE)
Shazia Jagot (she/her)
7 Mariam al-Ijli al-Asturlabi (c. tenth century CE): An extract from Fihrist Al-Nadim (Index) (c. 998 CE)
Shazia Jagot (she/her)
8 Josian: Extracts from the Middle English Romance Bevis of Hampton (c. 1300 CE)
Hannah Bower (she/her)
9 Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587 CE), Elizabeth Talbot (1527-1608 CE) and members of the Queen’s household: The Oxburgh Hangings (1569-1587 CE)
Sarah Cawthorne
PART III: Producing Knowledge (1600-1700)
10 Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1673): Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, The Blazing World, and Poems and Fancies (1668)
Liza Blake (she/her)
11 Mrs Mary Chantrell (fl. 1690): Book of receipts (1690-3)
Lucy J. Havard (she/her)
12 Sati-un-Nisa (d. 1646): Ma’asir-ul-Umara (Biography of the Notables) (1780) and photographs of the Mausoleum Saheli Burj (Female Companion’s Monument) (2020)
Mariam Sabri (they/them) and Anurag Advani (he/him)
13 Marie Crous (fl. 1641): Extracts from two of her mathematical works, the Advis de Marie Crous (1636) and Abbrégé recherché de Marie Crous (1641)
Giovanna Cifoletti (she/her) and Jean-Marie Coquard (he/him)
PART IV: Art, Gender and Knowledge (1700s)
14 Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717): Extract from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (The Metamorphosis of Insects in Surinam) (1705)
Tamara Caulkins (she/her)
15 Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714-1774): Self-portrait in wax (1755)
Corinne Doria (she/her)
16 Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck (1715-1785): Frontispiece to A Catalogue of the Portland Museum (1786)
Sadie Harrison (she/her)
17 Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier (1758-1836): Illustration in a scientific text (c. 1790)
Francesca Antonelli (she/her)
PART V: Societies and Networks of Science (1660 - 1850s)
18 Josefa Amar y Borbón (1749-1833): An extract from Discurso sobre la educación física y moral de las mujeres (Discourse on women’s physical and moral education) (1790)
Mónica Bolufer Peruga (she/her)
19 Ekaterina Romanova Dashkova (1744-1810): An extract from Memoirs of the Princess Daschkaw, Lady of Honour to Catherine II (1840)
Simon Werrett (he/him)
20 Caroline Lucretia Herschel (1750-1848): An extract from Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel (1876)
Mascha Hansen (she/her)
21 Lady Jane Davy (c. 1780-1855): As described in two extracts from her contemporaries (1812 and 1815)
Frank A. J. L. James (he/him)
22 The Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito (Committee of Ladies of Honour and Merit): Children’s parchments in the Madrid Foundling House (1802)
Elena Serrano (she/her)
PART VI: Maps, Scientific Travel and Colonialism (1800s)
23 Women travellers in Africa: Map by Friedrich Welwitsch (c. 1853–60)
Sara Albuquerque (she/her) and Silvia Figueirôa (she/her)
24 Martha Luise Sophie Bielenstein (1861-1938): Map of ‘The Latvian Language Area’ (1892)
Catherine Gibson (she/her)
25 Thomasina Ross (fl. 1850s): Title page of Alexander von Humboldt’s Personal Narrative of Travels (1852-3)
Alison Martin (she/her)
26 Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (1822-1907): Voyage of the Hassler (1871-2)
Erika Jones (she/her)
PART VII: Representations of the Natural World (1800s)
27 Margaret Meen (fl. 1775 -1824), Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), and Marianne North (1830-1890): Three botanical illustrations from women with connections to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Julia Buckley (she/her)
28 Eleanor Ormerod (1828-1901): Entomological specimens presented to the Museum of Economic Botany at Kew Gardens (1875-1880)
Caroline Cornish (she/her)
29 Emina María Jackson y Zaragoza (1858–?): Illustration of Diospyros embryopteris in the third edition of Manuel Blanco’s Flora de Filipinas (Flora of the Philippines) (1877–1883)
Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez (she/her/siya)
30 Sally Paul (fl. 1860s): Captain Campbell Hardy’s ‘Indian Remedy for Smallpox’, Teranaki Herald (1872)
Farrah Lawrence-Mackey (she/her)
PART VIII: Women and Geology – A Case Study (1823-1919)
31 Mary Anning (1799-1847): Letters from Anning to Sir Henry Bunbury (1823)
Ross MacFarlane (he/him)
32 Etheldred Benett (1775-1845): Preface to Catalogue of the Organic Remains of the County of Wiltshire (1831)
Susan Pickford (she/her)
33 Gertrude Lilian Elles (1872-1960): Geological hammers
Sandra Freshney (she/her)
PART IX: Education, Access and Agency (1850-1905)
34 Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852): Anonymous obituary published in The Examiner (1852)
Hannah Wills (she/her)
35 Mary Seacole (1805-1881): Extract from Seacole’s autobiography Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (1857)
Marie Allitt (she/her)
36 Sarah Emily Davies (1830-1921): A letter to Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1873)
Rebecca Martin (she/her)
37 Dr Laura Esther Rodríguez Dulanto (1872-1919): Introductory passage to her medical surgery doctoral dissertation, Perú (1900)
José Ragas (he/him) and Camila Rodríguez-Birke (she/her)
38 Anna Fischer-Dückelmann (1856-1917): Extract from Woman as Family Doctor (1905)
Izel Demirbas (she/her)
PART X: Women in the Scientific Workforce (1890-1950)
39 Rural Portuguese Women: Image of silkworm sorting using the Pasteur Method (1890-1900)
Isabel Zilhão (she/her)
40 Funü zazhi, ???? (The Ladies’ Journal): Three illustrations from the magazine (c. 1915-1931)
Hsiang-fu Huang (he/him)
41 ‘Women Engineers in the Field of Radio Telegraphy’: Extract from The Woman Engineer (1922)
Elizabeth Bruton (she/her), Graeme Gooday (he/him) and Anne Locker (she/her)
42 Women Demonstrating Electrical Appliances: Public demonstration of appliance utilities, Barcelona (1934)
Jordi Ferran Boleda (he/him)
43 Women in Portuguese Archaeology: A photograph of the Vila Nova de São Pedro excavation team (early 1950s)
Ana Cristina Martins (she/her)
PART XI: Women and the Institutions of Science (1910-1950)
44 Elsie Wakefield (1886-1972): Photograph of a fungi foray in Epping Forest, England (c. 1910)
Katherine Harrington (she/her)
45 Caroline Eustis Seely (1887-1961): A letter to the American Mathematical Society (1922)
Ellen Abrams (she/her)
46 Anna Tumarkin (1875-1951): A translation of an excerpt from her Methoden der Psychologischen Forschung (Methods of Psychological Inquiry) (1929)
Stefan Reiners-Selbach (he/him)
47 Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971): A letter to Hubert Peet, editor of The Friend magazine (1945)
Ash Arcadian (he/him)
48 Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958): ‘Photograph 51’ and a 50 pence piece marking the centenary of her birth
Frank A. J. L. James (he/him)
PART XII Embodied Female Experiences of Science (1965-present)
49 Margaret ‘Peggy’ Ann Lucas (b. 1947): 2013 interview with Spaceflight Insider about the Tektite II mission (1970)
Antony Adler (he/him)
50 Unnamed female monkey: Image of monkeys in a breeding program for polio vaccine testing (1978-2005)
Anne van Veen (she/her)
51 Unnamed working-class woman: Handwritten family recipe (1980s)
Catherine Price (she/her)
52 Stephanie Shirley (b. 1933), Janet Thomson (b. 1942), Sue Vine (fl. 1960s), and Charlotte Armah (b. 1970): Extracts from ‘An Oral History of British Science’ transcripts (2009–2015)
Sally Horrocks (she/her), Thomas Lean (he/him) and Paul Merchant (he/him)
Epilogue: Going Forward and Liberating the Curriculum
Index