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Book SynopsisA Laboratory of Her Own: Women and Science in Spanish Culture gathers diverse voices to address women's interaction with STEM fields in the context of Spanish cultural production. This volume focuses on the many ways the arts and humanities provide avenues for deepening the conversation about how women have been involved in, excluded from, and represented within the scientific realm. While women's historic exclusion from STEM fields has received increased scrutiny worldwide in recent years, women within the Spanish context have been perhaps even more peripheral given the complex socio-cultural structures emanating from gender norms and political ideologies dominant in the Spanish nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Nonetheless, Spanish female cultural producers have long been engaged with science and technology within the cultural realm, as expressed in literature, art, film, and other areas. Spanish cultural production offers diverse representations of the relationships between wome
Trade ReviewThis is a careful, cogent, fascinating, and well-researched collection of essays about the cultural, historical, and political contexts in which artists and authors interrogated STEM and gender themes in Spain. . . . A groundbreaking collection." - Mary Wyer, editor of
Women, Science, and Technology (2014)
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword Roberta Johnson
- Introduction
- 'The Story of Women and STEM in Spanish Culture' Victoria L. Ketz, Dawn Smith-Sherwood, & Debra Faszer-McMahon
- Part I: On Role Models: Female Scientists and Spanish Letters
- Chapter One 'Las chicas raras de STEM: Recuperating #WomensPlace in Spanish Literary and Scientific Histories' Dawn Smith-Sherwood
- Chapter Two '‘The Doctor Is In': Elena Arnedo Soriano (1941-2015), Women's Health, and the Cultural History of Gender and Medicine in Spain' Silvia BermÚdez
- Chapter Three 'Gender and the Critique of 'Ascientific Traditions': Science as Text and Intertext in Rosa Montero's La ridÍcula idea de no volver a verte' Ellen Mayock
- Chapter Four 'From la santidad de la escoba to la trinidad higiÉnica: Rosario de AcuÑa (1851-1923) and a More Inclusive Vision of Spain's Public Health Erika M. Sutherland
- Chapter Five 'Science, History, and Gender: An Interview with MarÍa JesÚs Santesmases' MarÍa JesÚs Santesmases, Victoria L. Ketz and Debra Faszer-McMahon
- Part II: On STE(A)M: Integrating Scientific Inquiry into the Cultural Realm
- Chapter Six 'Science in the Works of Clara JanÉs: A Poetics of Theoretical (Meta)physics' Debra Faszer-McMahon
- Chapter Seven 'An Extension of Sympathy: Science and Posthumanism in the Paintings of Remedios Varo' Marta del Pozo Ortea
- Chapter Eight 'Subversive, Combative, Corrective: Carmen de Burgos' Interventionist Translation of MÖbius' Űber den physiologischen Schwachsinn des Weibes [The Mental Inferiority of Women]' Leslie Anne Merced
- Chapter Nine 'Contrasting Images of Women Scientists in the Early Post-war Period (1940-45) and the Novel MarÍa Elena, ingeniero de caminos by Mercedes Ballesteros Miguel Soler Gallo
- Chapter Ten 'Unorthodox Theories and Beings: Science, Technology, and Women in the Narratives of Rosa Montero' Maryanne L. Leone
- Part III: On Gender: Using STEM to Critique Gendered Roles
- Chapter Eleven 'Biotech, BarcelÓ, Bustelo: Reproduction, Motherhood and Gendered Hierarchies in Spanish Science Fiction' Mirla GonzÁlez
- Chapter Twelve 'Challenging Boundaries of Time, Science, and Gender: Einstein's Theory of Relativity in Mayoral's ‘Admirados colegas'' Victoria L. Ketz
- Chapter Thirteen 'Technological Portrayals: Framing Fernandinas in the Colonial Context through Photography and Press during the Spanish Second Republic' InÉs Plasencia
- Chapter Fourteen 'Punishing Narratives: The Challenges of Gender and Scientific Authority in Spanish Science Fiction Film' Raquel Vega-DurÁn
- Chapter Fifteen 'Rethinking STEM through Digital Spanish Literature: Women, Rupture, and Community in the Works of Remedios Zafra and BelÉn Gache' Parissa Tadrissi
- Appendix: List of Works by Genre Addressed in this Volume
- Index
