Alix Cooper\, His tory\, SUNY-Stony Brook
"Family Matters: G endering the Labor of Early Modern Science"
Thursday\, April 19th\, 2018
6:00-7:30pm
Room 9205\, G raduate Center\, CUNY
In early modern Euro pe\, the pursuit of natural knowledge was\, in great part\, a family enterp rise. In the course of researching women's contributions to science\, and more broadly issues of gender in science\, historians of science have begun \, over the past several decades\, to uncover the numerous ways in which th e actual practice of science in fields ranging from astronomy to botany dep ended on women's unpaid (and often unrecognized) labor. As a number of sch olars have shown\, wives and daughters frequently made the observations or performed the calculations required to sustain their male relatives' scient ific projects. This talk will explore the ways in which\, during the early modern period\, research projects seem to have become the collective respo nsibility of entire households across generations\, and the ways in which g endered divisions of labor emerged in the process.
Alix Cooper teaches early modern European history and the history of science\, medicine\, and the environment at SUNY-Stony Brook on Long Isl and. Her first book was Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and N atural History in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge\, 2007)\; she is curre ntly working on a book-length project on the role of homes and households i n the shaping of early modern science and medicine.
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