A Laboratory of Her Own by Dawn Smith-Sherwood - ISBN: 9780826501288
Paperback
Spanish arts explore women’s complex relationship with science and technology.

A Laboratory of Her Own

Women and Science in Spanish Culture

  • Paperback

    414 pages

  • Release Date

    15 January 2021

Summary

A Laboratory of Her Own gathers diverse voices to address women’s interaction with STEM fields in the context of Spanish cultural production. This volume focuses on the many ways the arts and humanities provide avenues for deepening the conversation about how women have been involved in, excluded from, and represented within the scientific realm.

While women’s historic exclusion from STEM fields has been receiving increased scrutiny worldwide, women within the Spanish context…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780826501288
ISBN-10:0826501281
Author:Dawn Smith-Sherwood, Debra Faszer-McMahon, Victoria L. Ketz
Publisher:Vanderbilt University Press
Imprint:Vanderbilt University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:414
Release Date:15 January 2021
Weight:594g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm x 25mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

This is a careful, cogent, fascinating, and well-researched collection of essays about the cultural, historical, and political contexts in which artists and authors interrogated STEM and gender themes in Spain… . A groundbreaking collection.” - Mary Wyer, editor of Women, Science, and Technology (2014)

About The Author

Dawn Smith-Sherwood

Victoria Ketz is professor of Spanish at La Salle University.

Debra Faszer-McMahon is associate professor of Spanish at Seton Hill University.

Dawn M. Smith-Sherwood is associate professor of Spanish at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

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