The Resource A world without women : the Christian clerical culture of Western science, David F. Noble
A world without women : the Christian clerical culture of Western science, David F. Noble
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- Summary
- In this groundbreaking work of history, David Noble examines the origins and implications of the masculine culture of Western science and technology. He begins by asking why women have figured so little in the development of science, and then proceeds--in a fascinating and radical analysis--to trace their absence to a deep-rooted legacy of the male-dominated Western religious community. He shows how over the last thousand years science and the practices and institutions of higher learning were dominated by Christian clerics, whose ascetic culture from the late medieval period militated against the inclusion of women in scientific enterprise. He further demonstrates how the attitudes that took hold then remained more or less intact through the Reformation, and still subtly permeate our thinking despite the secularization of learning. Noble also describes how during the first millennium and after, women at times gained amazingly broad intellectual freedom and participated both in clerical activities and in scholarly pursuits. But, as Noble shows, these episodic forays occurred only in the wake of anticlerical movements within the church and without. He suggests finally an impulse toward "defeminization" at the core of the modern scientific and technological enterprise as it works to wrest from one-half of humanity its part in production (the Industrial Revolution's male appropriation of labor) and reproduction (the millennium-old quest for the artificial womb). An important book that profoundly examines how the culture of Western science came to be a world without women
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xvii, 329 pages
- Contents
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- Pt. 1: A World with Women. 1: Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives. 2: Revivals
- Pt. 2: A World Without Women. 3: Saints: The Ascent of Clerical Asceticism. 4: Fathers: Patristic Anxiety to Papal Agenda. 5: Brothers: The Militarization of Monasticism. 6: Priests: The Monasticization of the Church. 7: Bachelors: The Scholastic Cloister
- Pt. 3: Science. 8: Revelation in Nature. 9: The Scientific Restoration. 10: Women in a World Without Women
- Isbn
- 9780394556505
- Label
- A world without women : the Christian clerical culture of Western science
- Title
- A world without women
- Title remainder
- the Christian clerical culture of Western science
- Statement of responsibility
- David F. Noble
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In this groundbreaking work of history, David Noble examines the origins and implications of the masculine culture of Western science and technology. He begins by asking why women have figured so little in the development of science, and then proceeds--in a fascinating and radical analysis--to trace their absence to a deep-rooted legacy of the male-dominated Western religious community. He shows how over the last thousand years science and the practices and institutions of higher learning were dominated by Christian clerics, whose ascetic culture from the late medieval period militated against the inclusion of women in scientific enterprise. He further demonstrates how the attitudes that took hold then remained more or less intact through the Reformation, and still subtly permeate our thinking despite the secularization of learning. Noble also describes how during the first millennium and after, women at times gained amazingly broad intellectual freedom and participated both in clerical activities and in scholarly pursuits. But, as Noble shows, these episodic forays occurred only in the wake of anticlerical movements within the church and without. He suggests finally an impulse toward "defeminization" at the core of the modern scientific and technological enterprise as it works to wrest from one-half of humanity its part in production (the Industrial Revolution's male appropriation of labor) and reproduction (the millennium-old quest for the artificial womb). An important book that profoundly examines how the culture of Western science came to be a world without women
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Noble, David F
- Dewey number
- 306.4/5/082
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- Q130
- LC item number
- .N63 1992
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women in science
- Science
- Femmes dans les sciences
- Sciences
- Wetenschap
- Christendom
- Vrouwen
- Femmes scientifiques
- Frau
- Geschichte
- Naturwissenschaften
- Christendom
- Femmes scientifiques
- Vrouwen
- Wetenschap
- Europa
- Label
- A world without women : the Christian clerical culture of Western science, David F. Noble
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-314) and index
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- Contents
- Pt. 1: A World with Women. 1: Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives. 2: Revivals -- Pt. 2: A World Without Women. 3: Saints: The Ascent of Clerical Asceticism. 4: Fathers: Patristic Anxiety to Papal Agenda. 5: Brothers: The Militarization of Monasticism. 6: Priests: The Monasticization of the Church. 7: Bachelors: The Scholastic Cloister -- Pt. 3: Science. 8: Revelation in Nature. 9: The Scientific Restoration. 10: Women in a World Without Women
- Control code
- 23976388
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xvii, 329 pages
- Isbn
- 9780394556505
- Lccn
- 91023073
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1449232
- Label
- A world without women : the Christian clerical culture of Western science, David F. Noble
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-314) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Pt. 1: A World with Women. 1: Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives. 2: Revivals -- Pt. 2: A World Without Women. 3: Saints: The Ascent of Clerical Asceticism. 4: Fathers: Patristic Anxiety to Papal Agenda. 5: Brothers: The Militarization of Monasticism. 6: Priests: The Monasticization of the Church. 7: Bachelors: The Scholastic Cloister -- Pt. 3: Science. 8: Revelation in Nature. 9: The Scientific Restoration. 10: Women in a World Without Women
- Control code
- 23976388
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xvii, 329 pages
- Isbn
- 9780394556505
- Lccn
- 91023073
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1449232
Subject
- Christendom
- Europa
- Femmes dans les sciences -- Europe -- Histoire
- Femmes scientifiques
- Femmes scientifiques
- Frau
- Geschichte
- History
- Christendom
- Science -- Europe -- History
- Sciences -- Europe -- Histoire
- Vrouwen
- Vrouwen
- Wetenschap
- Wetenschap
- Women in science -- Europe -- History
- Naturwissenschaften
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