Part 1 Women practitioners of science: elbow room - women writers on science 1790-1840, Marina Benjamin; the laws of health - women medicine and sanitary reform 1850-1890, Perry Williams; women in the 19th-century instrument trade, Alison Morrison-Low. Part 2 Gender representation in science: the private life of plants - sexual politics in Carl Linnaeus and Erasmus Darwin, Londa Schiebinger; dichotomy and denial - Mesmerism, medicine and Harriet Martineau, Roger Cooter; hermaphroditism and sex difference: the construction of gender in Victorian England, Ornella Moscucci; male hysteria/female hysteria - reflection on comparative gender construction in 19th-century France and Britain, Mark S. Micale. Part 3 Science and feminism: "life" as we have known it - feminism and the biology of gender - Lynda Birke; unfathering the thinkable - gender science and pacificism in the 1930s, Gill Hudson.
