A Question of Identity / Marina Benjamin -- Reflections on the History of the Science of Woman / Sylvana Tomaselli -- Gendered Knowledge, Gendered Minds: Women and Newtonianism, 1690-1760 / John Mullan -- The Male Scientist, Man-Midwife, and Female Monster: Appropriation and Transmutation in Frankenstein / Marie Mulvey Roberts -- The Aseptic Male Obstetrician and the Filthy Peasant Crone: Contemporary Women Writers' Accounts of Birth / Tess Cosslett -- Conceiving Difference: Reproductive Technology and the Construction of Identity in Two Contemporary Fictions / Susan Squier -- The Gendered Ape: Early Representations of Primates in Europe / Londa Schiebinger -- The Life Cycle of Cyborgs: Writing the Posthuman / N. Katherine Hayles -- Science and the Supernatural in the Stories of Margaret Oliphant / Jenni Calder -- "Preaching to the Nerves": Psychological Disorder in Sensation Fiction / Sally Shuttleworth
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