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J. A. Zahm. Woman in Science
Woman in Science
Table of Contents
PREFACE
WOMAN IN SCIENCE
CHAPTER I
WOMAN'S LONG STRUGGLE FOR THINGS OF THE MIND
WOMAN AND EDUCATION IN ANCIENT GREECE
WOMAN AND EDUCATION IN ANCIENT ROME
WOMAN AND EDUCATION DURING THE MIDDLE AGES
WOMAN AND EDUCATION DURING THE RENAISSANCE
WOMAN AND EDUCATION BETWEEN THE RENAISSANCE AND THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER II
WOMAN'S CAPACITY FOR SCIENTIFIC PURSUITS
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER III
WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IV
WOMEN IN ASTRONOMY
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER V
WOMEN IN PHYSICS
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VI
WOMEN IN CHEMISTRY
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VII
WOMEN IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VIII
WOMEN IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IX
WOMEN IN ARCHÆOLOGY
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER X
WOMEN AS INVENTORS
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XI
WOMEN AS INSPIRERS AND COLLABORATORS IN SCIENCE
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XII
THE FUTURE OF WOMEN IN SCIENCE:
SUMMARY AND EPILOGUE
FOOTNOTES:
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PARTIAL LIST OF THE WORKS QUOTED OR REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT
INDEX
FOLLOWING THE CONQUISTADORES. Up the Orinoco and Down the Magdalena
Along the Andes and Down the Amazon
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J. A. Zahm
With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind
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From the foregoing observations it will be seen that the general attitude of the Athenians toward woman was anything but favorable to her intellectual development, or to her exerting any influence beyond the limits of her own household. And what is said of the Greeks can be affirmed, with still greater emphasis, of the other nations of antiquity. Indeed, it can be safely asserted that, had they all entered into a solemn compact systematically to discredit woman's mental capacity and to repress all her noblest aspirations, they could not have succeeded more effectually than by the methods they severally adopted. In ancient Greece the condition of woman was little better than it is in India to-day under the law of Manu, where the husband, no matter how unworthy he may be, must be regarded by the wife as a god.
And yet, notwithstanding the dominant force of public opinion and the strange traditional prejudices that possessed for the majority of people all the semblance and commanding power of truth, woman was here and there able to break through the barriers that impeded her progress in her quest of knowledge and to defy the social conventions that precluded her from being seen or heard in the intellectual arena.
