65 P - Intersections of Gender, Science and Nature in the Long Nineteenth Century

Friday, June 2, 2017: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
BRESL 12 (Hofstra University)
Chair:
Olivia Weisser, University of Massachusetts Boston
Science and Suffrage in Bostonian Women's Educational Organizations, 1868-1910
Katie Baca, Harvard University
The Murderess of Utica: Abortion, Madness, and the History of Difficult Women
R.E. Fulton, SUNY at Geneseo
The Exclusionary Nature of Naming Nature: The Nineteenth-Century Botany Gender Divide
Henrietta Nickels Shirk, Montana Tech of The University of Montana

Session Abstract

This panel uses a variety of topics including the suffrage movement, women’s presence in scientific education, illegal abortion clinics, diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and plant naming to explore the complicated relationship between gender and scientific authority during the 1800’s. Individual papers discuss various forms of resistance to rigid definitions of gender that excluded women from science, and pathologized "difficult women" and gender nonconformity.

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