Welcome - Hypatia's Daughters: Women in Science HSTC 3412   Hypatia's Daughters: Women in Science
CREDIT HOURS: 3
From Hypatia to Hildegard von Bingen, from Mary Somerville to Marie Curie, this course surveys the scientific contributions made throughout history by some of the most important women scientists and natural philosophers while examining how their respective social contexts shaped their philosophical and scientific practices.
NOTES: This course complements, but is distinct from EMSP 2310: Women and Gender in Early Modern Science, which focuses on the work of early modern women scientists, and from GWST 3215: Feminism and Science, which focuses on questions from feminist epistemology which will only be indirectly discussed in this course.
FORMAT:

• Lecture
• Tutorial

CROSS-LISTING: GWST 3412.03
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