Working With Paper

Working With Paper
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Working with Paper builds on a growing interest in the materials of science by exploring the gendered uses and meanings of paper tools and technologies, considering how notions of gender impacted paper practices and in turn how paper may have structured knowledge about gender. Through a series of dynamic investigations covering Europe and North America and spanning the early modern period to the twentieth century, this volume breaks new ground by examining material histories of paper and the gendered worlds that made them. Contributors explore diverse uses of paper—from healing to phrenological analysis to model making to data processing—which often occurred in highly gendered, yet seemingly divergent spaces, such as laboratories and kitchens, court rooms and boutiques, ladies’ chambers and artisanal workshops, foundling houses and colonial hospitals, and college gymnasiums and state office buildings. Together, they reveal how notions of masculinity and femininity became embedded in and expressed through the materials of daily life. Working with Paper uncovers the intricate negotiations of power and difference underlying epistemic practices, forging a material history of knowledge in which quotidian and scholarly practices are intimately linked.


Carla Bittel is associate professor of history at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Elaine Leong is a Minerva Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

Christine von Oertzen is senior research scholar in Department II at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

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  • felsina
    11-06
    Eyferth的回应真是本书的saving grace,让我很想跳过欧洲相关的文献直接读他的书了。本文集里多数欧洲科学史的论文都显得如此碎片化、拘泥于档案细节,又或者在一些既定概念框架里打转,当然都转的精致而准确。读完常常问自己,我知道了某个纸张使用的案例之后so what,而作者很少给出后续的思考,这显示出这个领域的怠惰(不好意思整体批评了)。但换个角度来说,本书里也的确有很多有助于思考纸张物质性的有趣的历史细节吧。
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