Introduction: Domesticity and the Historiography of Science

Opitz, Donald L.; Bergwik, Staffan; Tiggelen, Brigitte Van

doi:10.1057/9781137492739_1

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“…Sometimes the focus has been on the importance of marriage in the creation of the couple's common life work, sometimes on the woman's scientific work behind the more publicly recognized man. 8 An important insight in this research is that science presupposes life choices that have often been considered private, but without which the scientific activity would not have been possible to carry out. 9 Through Astri Runnström's life story about John, their case can be read as a counter-narrative to the traditional history of science, to stories about scientific heroes and the lonely (male) genius.…”

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A life in science – marriage as an epistemic relationship and the joint scientific persona of Astri and John Runnström

Niskanen

2022

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This article analyses an unpublished (auto)biographical account by Astri Runnström, wife of the internationally renowned Swedish zoologist John Runnström (1888-1971). Runnström pioneered his research area in Sweden, experimental zoology and cellular physiology. His research was based on long, recurring stays at marine biological stations in Sweden and abroad. Astri Runnström (1897-1978) accompanied her husband on these stays and worked as an assistant in his laboratory, without compensation and without ever gaining recognition in the creation of his successful career. I argue that Astri Runnström’s biography on John can be read as an autobiographical narrative, with the aim of negotiating Astri a place in her husband’s scientific legacy. Astri Runnström’s textual strategy was to create a joint scientific persona for the two of them and present marriage as an epistemic relationship, without which John Runnström’s scientific achievements would not have been possible to carry out.

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A life in science – marriage as an epistemic relationship and the joint scientific persona of Astri and John Runnström

Niskanen

2022

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“…As the editors of an edition on domesticity note, 'the domestic sphere is not external to knowledge making'. 39 Private households, houses and flats could often appear as key points of scientific or intellectual networks. This was particularly true for Marie and Otto Neurath: in Oxford, their work spaces and private spaces were in the same house.…”

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Marie Reidemeister and Otto Neurath: interwoven lives and work

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Sandner

2022

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Otto Neurath and Marie Reidemeister were both part of an interdisciplinary team which developed the ‘Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics’ (later known as Isotype). Neurath is usually credited as the ‘inventor’ of Isotype, yet Reidemeister was a key figure in this work of visual education from the beginning. After Neurath’s death in 1945, she continued the Isotype work for two and a half decades. Marie Reidemeister also became a historian of Isotype and, in the 1970s and 1980s, she was involved in editing publications about Otto Neurath, helping to shape and correct the record of his life and work. This paper explores the challenges faced by female surviving partners who have worked intensively with their spouses for a long time and later work on their legacy. What problems arise from the effort to honour the deceased partner for one’s own visibility as a researcher? Marie Reidemeister’s role and attitude deserve examination for not fully conforming to the stereotype of a widow anxious to control the reputation of a deceased partner; neither did she attempt to present herself as the ‘great woman behind a great man’, instead calmly recording facts that establish her as a pioneer of information design.

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“…La historiografía ha mostrado el vínculo entre ciencia y género en los últimos siglos, exponiendo cómo ello ha marcado a sus actores, espacios y lenguajes, entre otros. Como ha señalado Donald Opitz (2015), por ejemplo, la ciencia moderna se nutrió del espacio doméstico y de los roles desempeñados en él para la producción del conocimiento científico. De esta manera, se ha incorporado a nuevos agentes de producción científica, poniendo en entredicho la idea de que la ciencia solo se hace desde los laboratorios mediante los llamados expertos.…”

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Las pioneras en exigir educación científica: Ciencia, mujer y prensa en el Chile decimonónico

Ramírez

2020

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Este artículo revisa desde una perspectiva histórica los esfuerzos protagonizados por una red de mujeres chilenas durante las últimas tres décadas del siglo XIX, destinados a conseguir su derecho a educarse científica y profesionalmente. Su enfoque se centra en el análisis de publicaciones efectuadas por estas mujeres en la prensa, lo que a su vez responde a una actitud rupturista que les permitió tomarse espacios negados antes para ellas (la ciencia y la prensa), yendo más allá de lo establecido, y motivando con sus acciones reformas y cambios sociales profundos. La tesis principal desarrollada es que la irrupción de la mujer en la prensa chilena está completamente ligada a esta red de intelectuales que exigió el derecho de educarse profesional y científicamente. Se postula que esta última convicción fue el aliciente para que ellas se tomaran aquel espacio público, convirtiéndose la prensa en la herramienta principal para lograr sus objetivos.

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Introduction: Domesticity and the Historiography of Science

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

A life in science – marriage as an epistemic relationship and the joint scientific persona of Astri and John Runnström

A life in science – marriage as an epistemic relationship and the joint scientific persona of Astri and John Runnström

Marie Reidemeister and Otto Neurath: interwoven lives and work

Las pioneras en exigir educación científica: Ciencia, mujer y prensa en el Chile decimonónico

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