Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture

Title: Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture Author: Ann Shteir ISBN: 9781584656036 Publisher: Dartmouth College Published: 2006 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good Cinema 1622827 Publisher Description: In light of recent debates about the culture of contemporary science and the place of women in scientific fields, Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture offers a timely consideration of the role of gender in the imagery of modern Western science. Representing a wide array of interdisciplinary fields, the contributors focus on pictures of male and female figures as a way to study the workings of gender in science while using gender as a way to examine how visual images in science contain and convey meanings. Roughly chronological in organization, part one focuses on mythological and metaphorical depictions of gender in early fronti