Women in the history of science

The book Women in the History of Science, published by UCL Press, brings together primary sources that highlight women’s involvement in scientific knowledge production around the world. Arranged by time period, covering 1200 BCE to the twenty-first century, and across 12 far-reaching themes, this book explores women’s history in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, medicine and culture.
 

While women are too often excluded from traditional narratives of the history of science, this book centres on the voices and experiences of women across a range of domains of knowledge. The book is available for free download.

Women in the history of science in HCS-Manguinhos:

Historia y feminismo en América Latina. El libro de la historiadora argentina Dora Barrancos condensa los grandes acontecimientos de los feminismos del siglo XX en la región, sus protagonistas y demandas.

A historiographic essay on the history of women, medicine, and gender Some of the most important works and approaches.

Tensiones de género en la protección de la infancia María Soledad Rojas Novoa analiza las condiciones de emergencia del movimiento americano de protección de la infancia a principios del siglo XX.

Women made visible: the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Portugal This work in progress looks at the Institute’s scientific journal to identify the participation of women in tropical medicine between 1943 and 1966.

Gender, women and science February, 11 International Day of Women and Girls in Science. This special dossier of HCS-Manguinhos published in 2008 is entirely dedicated to gender, women and science.

A historiographic essay on the history of women, medicine, and gender Some of the most important works and approaches.

Women involved in Brazil’s health policy on leprosy Francieli Lunelli Santos and José Augusto Leandro examine the family profiles of women holding key decision-making positions in health policy concerning leprosy from the mid-1920s to the late 1940s.

Women in sciences, a historiographical reflection On International Women Day, we selected articles that offer a historiographical reflection on women’s contribution to science and technology.

Women in sciences This special issue of the journal “Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science” features a historiographical reflection on women’s contribution to science and technology.

Peruvian women alleging forced sterilization seek justice Thousands of Peruvian women have been seeking justice, alleging they were sterilized without consent in the 1990s under an aggressive population control campaign carried out by the government of former President Alberto Fujimori.

Oscar-winning documentary spotlights stigma of women’s periods in India The Iranian-American director’s 25-minute film, available on Netflix, explores the stigma surrounding menstruation in rural India, where sanitary pads are so rare that most young women are unaware of their existence or have only learned about them on television.

The idealized representation of women in Brazilian magazines, 1940-1960 It analyses the female figures of the advertisements published in O Cruzeiro and Manchete magazines between the 1940s and 1960s.

Women’s reproductive health in early twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro Cassia Roth, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, shows that elevated stillbirth and maternal mortality rates marked women’s reproductive years, despite official efforts to medicalize childbirth and increase access to clinical healthcare.

Género, sanidad y colonialidad: la ‘mujer marroquí’ y la ‘mujer española’ en la política sanitaria de España en Marruecos, Isabel Jiménez-Lucena. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2006, vol.13, no.2.

The biomedicalisation of illegal abortion: the double life of misoprostol in Brazil,  Silvia de Zordo. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2016, vol.23, no.1.

La protección a la maternidad de las trabajadoras en Argentina: aspectos legales y administrativos en la primera mitad del siglo XX, Carolina Biernat y Karina Ramacciotti, Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2011, vol.18, suppl.1

La tutela estatal de la madre y el niño en la Argentina: estructuras administrativas, legislación y cuadros técnicos (1936-1955). Carolina Biernat y Karina Ramacciotti. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2008, vol.15, no.2.

Parirás sin dolor: poder médico, género y política en las nuevas formas de atención del parto en la Argentina (1960-1980), Karina Felitti. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2011, vol.18, suppl.1.

Intersecciones en las configuraciones de la maternidad en la historia argentina, 1900-1946: registros médicos y culturales bajo la lupa, Karina Felitti. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2016, vol.23, no.1.

Cancer, women, and public health: the history of screening for cervical cancer, Ilana Löwy. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, July 2010, vol.17, suppl.1.

Morbimortalidad femenina en la Puna jujeña: potencialidad de la técnica autopsia verbal, Raquel Irene Drovetta. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2008, vol.15.

Género, sanidad y colonialidad: la ‘mujer marroquí’ y la ‘mujer española’ en la política sanitaria de España en Marruecos, Isabel Jiménez-Lucena . Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2006, vol.13, no.2.

Enfermería de salud pública, modernización y cooperación internacional: El proyecto de la Escuela Nacional de Enfermeras de Venezuela, 1936-1950, Hebe M. C. Vessuri. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2001, vol.8, no.3.

Eugenics, sterilization, and historical memory in the United States, Alexandra Minna Stern. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dec 2016, vol.23, suppl.1.

Madres y niños en las políticas del Servicio Nacional de Salud de Chile (1952-1964), María Soledad Zárate Campos y Lorena Godoy Catalán. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2011, vol.18, suppl.1.