Writing about Lives in Science

(Auto)Biography, Gender, and Genre. Edited by Paola Govoni and Zelda Alice Franceschi.

Following discussions on scientific biography carried out over the past few decades, this book proposes a kaleidoscopic survey of the uses of biography as a tool to understand science and its context. It offers food for thought on the role played by the gender of the biographer and the biographee in the process of writing. The authors belong to a variety of academic and professional fields, including the history of science, anthropology, literary studies, and science journalism. The period covered spans from 1732, when Laura Bassi was the first woman to get a tenured professorship of physics, to 2009, when Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider were the first women's team to have won a Nobel Prize in science. With 11 contributions by Evelyn Fox Keller, Londa Schiebinger, Georgina Ferry et al. 287 Seiten, gebunden (Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities; Vol. 9/V&R unipress 2014) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear