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Bachelors of science : seventeenth-century identity, then and now
- Title
- Bachelors of science : seventeenth-century identity, then and now / Naomi Zack.
- Author
- Zack, Naomi, 1944-
- Publication
- Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, ©1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Description
- xii, 249 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Feminist analyses identify contemporary Western ideas of the gendered and racialized self as originating in the seventeenth century. Naomi Zack examines the writings of key "bachelors of science"--Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Newton, Gassendi, and Boyle--and locates their reputations within the framework of the de facto "masculinization of science" and "scientizing of masculinity." Zack takes on issues such as pre-racial conceptions of slavery, witchcraft trials and their connection to homosociality, and the highly sexualized nature of women's identity in the seventeenth century. She suggests a link between elite bachelorhood, the profession of philosophy, and scientific pursuit as recreational activity. This book is central to understanding the precedents of modern scientific identity, race, and gender. --From publisher's description.
- Series Statement
- Themes in the history of philosophy
- Uniform Title
- Themes in the history of philosophy
- Subject
- 1600-1699
- Philosophy, Modern > 17th century
- Philosophy and science > History > 17th century
- Philosophers > Psychology > History > 17th century
- Identity (Psychology) > History > 17th century
- Philosophy > history
- Psychology, Social > history
- Empiricism > history
- Gender Identity > history
- Identity (Psychology)
- Philosophers > Psychology
- Philosophy and science
- Philosophy, Modern
- Naturwissenschaften
- Philosoph
- Philosophie
- Sexualität
- Empiricism > History
- Science > Philosophy > History > 17th century
- Philosophers, Modern > 17th century
- Scientists > 17th century
- Bachelors > History > 17th century
- Feminist theory
- Sex role > Europe > History > 17th century
- Race awareness > Europe > History > 17th century
- Geschichte 1600-1700
- Geschichte (1600-1700)
- Europa
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-244) and index.
- Contents
- The intellectual context of the new science. Feminist criticism ; Descartes' doubt and pyrrhonic skepticism ; The via media and English empiricism -- The new identities. Bachelors in life ; Locke's forensic self ; Propriety and civic identity ; Protestant difference and toleration ; The royal society ; Hypotheses non fingo -- The unidentified. Abuses and uses of children ; Wifemen and feminists ; Slavery without race ; Witches and magi ; The wealth of nature -- Afterword : where do we go from here?
- ISBN
- 1566394368
- 9781566394369
- 156639435X
- 9781566394352
- LCCN
- 95052077
- OCLC
- ocm33983796
- 33983796
- SCSB-2088718
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library