Osiris, Volume 30: Scientific Masculinities (Volume 30) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 022626761X ISBN 13: 9780226267616

Publisher: University of Chicago Press Journals, 2016

Synopsis

This volume of Osiris integrates gender analysis with the global history of science and medicine from the late Middle Ages to the present by focusing on masculinity. The premise is that social constructions of masculinity function simultaneously as foils for femininity and as methods of differentiating between “kinds” of men. In exploring scientific masculinities, the book asks: how has masculinity been defined, and what are the mechanisms by which it operates in science? The essays are divided into sections that emphasize the importance of gender to the practices of professionalization, the spaces in which scientific, technological, and medical labor is performed, and the ways that sex, gender, and sexual orientation are measured and serve as metaphors in society and culture.

About this title

About the Author:

Erika Lorraine Milam is associate professor of history and the history of science at Princeton University. She is the author of Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology. Robert A. Nye is professor of history emeritus at Oregon State University. He is the author of Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press Journals
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 022626761X
• ISBN 13: 9780226267616
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Milam Erika Lorraine, Nye Robert A.