History 138:  Science in the U.S.

Class 14 (9/25)
The modern university (2)
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Outline A university for California
  Ambitions and growing pains
  Relations with patrons:  the College of Agriculture
  The revolt against the legislature
  Wheeler and the research trajectory

Research universities and American science
  Elite domination
  Science as a vocation:  method and morality
  Social access and mobility

Women's education and science
  Social change in the late 19th century
  Doors opening
  Doors closing
  Women and the Ph.D. at Cal
Names and Terms
Primary Secondary
University of California (fd. 1868)
Daniel Coit Gilman (1831-1908)
Benjamin Ide Wheeler (president 1899-1919)		 Eugene Hilgard (dean of College of Agriculture, 1874-1904)
CA Constitutional Convention (1878)
Regents
Lick Observatory (1888)
Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842-1919)
republican motherhood
separate spheres
Agnes Fay Morgan (1884-1968)
Assignment Margaret W. Rossiter, "'Women's Work' in Science, 1880-1910," in Scientific, ed. Numbers and Rosenberg, 123-140. [Originally Isis 71 (1980): 381-398.]

 Why was astronomy hospitable to women? Why plant pathology?
 What is home economics in scientific terms?
 How does Rossiter complicate what other historians might tell as a straightforward story of exclusion and oppression?
Copyright © Cathryn Carson 2002