Women in the History of Science Sourcebook - call for subbmissions
Women in the History of Science: A Liberating the Curriculum Sourcebook
We are asking for: Sources
and explanatory text for a history of science sourcebook that focuses
on women in science (broadly construed) from a global perspective, from
antiquity to the present day.
We are particularly interested in early modern, medieval, and ancient sources, alongside sources
that explore women’s knowledge production beyond Europe
Aims: Our
sourcebook is designed to complement the teaching of undergraduate
history of science courses, by providing sources that reveal women’s
involvement in knowledge production
from around the world. Our ambition is to contribute to liberating the
curriculum within the history of science, by giving voice to
underrepresented actors, and by providing sources that go beyond
traditional textual accounts, alongside brief explanatory notes.
Details: Possible
sources might include letters, instruments, weapons, artwork, poetry,
textiles, recipes, diary entries, and scrapbooks amongst many others. We
particularly welcome
new translations and transcriptions.
We welcome submissions under, but not limited to, the following themes:
Materials of Science
Objects and alternative sources
Media, Art, Images, Sculpture
Exploration
Maritime, space exploration
Empire and exoticism
Map making, travel accounts
Non-western knowledge making
Non-traditional disciplines and methods
Non-western ideologies and cosmologies
Alternative measuring devices or instruments
Medicine
Disease and healing
The body, embodied experience
Food, recipes, and care
Religion
Knowledge and belief
Ritual and medicine
Conflicts and cooperation
Science & Violence
War
Colonialism and oppressive practices
Crime
Spaces and Communities
Domestic and professional spaces, institutions
Networks, access and agency
Rebels, dissenters, outsiders
Popular science and consuming knowledge
Indigenous & Folk knowledge
Marginalised practices and erasure
Access & agency
Technology
Instruments
Skill and Artisanry
Embodied and/or tacit knowledges
Plants and Animals
Botany and uses of flora
Agriculture
Natural history and collecting
How to submit: Please
send us the source you would like to use (low res. image or text
sources not exceeding 5,000 words), details of the copyright owners of
the source, and a covering letter of no more than 200 words. Covering
letters should give some background to the source
and why you believe it is relevant to this work, as well as a little
detail of your own background. A CV may be attached if you wish.
Email submissions to historyofsciencesourcebook@
Final
contributions to the book will be due in July 2019 and consist of no
more than 1000 words of explanatory text aimed at introducing each
corresponding source to undergraduate students.
Please
note that all sources must be able to be published in Open Access
(Creative Commons) format and that each author will need to acquire
copyright permissions to publish their source.
We
strongly encourage proposals from early career researchers and people
from underrepresented communities. We are also more than happy to
consider multiple sources from one applicant