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ext-4423ce882a418db4dac2a43262f7daa6 |
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Date |
2003 |
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repository |
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Is Part Of |
p15456994 |
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abstract |
In May 1933 the historian of chemistry Hélène Metzger addressed a letter to the renowned
historian and philosopher of science Émile Meyerson, a cri de coeur against Meyerson's
patronizing attitude toward her. This recently discovered letter is published and
translated here because it is an exceptional human document reflecting the gender
power structure of our discipline in interwar France. At the age of forty-three, and
with five books to her credit, Metzger was still a junior scholar in the exclusively
male community of French historians and philosophers of science. We sketch the institutional
setting of higher learning in France at the time, noting the limited openings it offered
to would-be femmes savantes, and situate Metzger in this context. We also describe
the philosophical differences between Metzger and Meyerson. Though Metzger never managed
to obtain a post of her own, in her letter to Meyerson she forcefully lays claim,
at least, to a mind of her own. |
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authorList |
authors |
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issue |
3 |
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peerReviewed |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1542 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/17851 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/18582 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/18583 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/7268 |
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volume |
94 |
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type |
AcademicArticle |
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type |
Article |
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label |
Chimisso, Cristina and Freudenthal, Gad (2003). A Mind of her Own: Helene Metzger
to Emile Meyerson, 1933. Isis, 94(3) pp. 477–491. |
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label |
Chimisso, Cristina and Freudenthal, Gad (2003). A Mind of her Own: Helene Metzger
to Emile Meyerson, 1933. Isis, 94(3) pp. 477–491. |
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Title |
A Mind of her Own: Helene Metzger to Emile Meyerson, 1933 |
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