Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize

At its annual meeting in 2004, the HSS Council voted unanimously to rename The Women's Prize The Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize in recognition of Professor Rossiter's pioneering work in the field. This prize is awarded in recognition of an outstanding book (or, in even-numbered years, article) on the history of women in science. The book or article may take a biographical, institutional, theoretical, or other approach to the topic, which may include discussions of women's activities in science, analyses of past scientific practices that deal explicitly with gender, and investigations regarding women as viewed by scientists. These may relate to medicine, technology, and the social sciences as well as the natural sciences. The book or article must have been published no more than four years before the year of award. The prize may not be split between two books or two articles. Please include the full citation when nominating a book or essay. Sending a copy of a hard-to-find essay to the Executive Office can expedite the nomination.

Prize Committee Members:
Fernando Vidal, 2004-2007 (Chair)
Judith Johns Schloegel, 2005-2008
Ida Stamhuis, 2006-2009

Arleen Tuchman and her book, "Situating Gender" in Isis, March 2004, Vol. 85, no.1 was recognized for the 2006 award.

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Past Winners of The Margaret W. Rossiter
History of Women in Science Prize
1987 Regina Markell Morantz-Sanchez, Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985).
1988 Pnina Abir-Am, "Synergy or Clash: Disciplinary and Marital Strategies in the Career of Mathematical Biologist Dorothy Wrinch," in Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives, edited by Pnina Abir-Am and Dorinda Outram (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1987).
1989 Joan Mark, A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988).
1990 Ann Hibner Koblitz, "Science, Women, and the Russian Intelligentsia: The Generation of the 1860s," Isis, 1988, 79: 208-226.
1991 Martha H. Verbrugge, Able-Bodied Womenhood: Personal Health and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Boston (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).
1992 Judith Coffin, "Social Science Meets Sweated Labor: Reinterpreting Women's Work in Late Nineteenth-century France"
1993 Barbara Duden, The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991).
1994 Londa Schiebinger, "Why Mammals Are Called Mammals: Gender Politics in Eighteenth-Century National History," American Historical Review, 1993, 98: 382-411.
1995 Elizabeth Lunbeck, The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994).
1996 Ida Stamhuis, "A Female Contribution to Early Genetics: Tine Tammes and Mendel's Laws for Continuous Characters," Journal of the History of Biology, 1995, 28: 495-531.
1997 Margaret W. Rossiter, Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
1998 Mary Terrall "Émilie du Chätelet and the Gendering of Science," History of Science, 1995, 33: 283-310.
1999 Linda J. Lear, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (Henry Holt and Company, 1997).
2000 Naomi Oreskes, "Objectivity or Heroism? On the Invisibility of Women in Science," Osiris, 1996, 11: 87-113.
2001 Charlotte Furth, A Flourishing Yin: Chinese Medical History, 960-1665 (University of California Press, 2000).
2002 Ruth Oldenziel, "Multiple-Entry Visas: Gender and Engineering in the U.S., 1870-1945," in Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges: Comparing the History of Women Engineers, 1870s-1990s, eds. Annie Canel, Ruth Oldenziel, and Karin Zachmann (Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000), pp. 11-50.
2003 Ellen Singer More, Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995 (Harvard University Press, 2000)
2004 Paula Findlen, The Scientist's Body: The Nature of Woman Philosopher in Enlightenment Italyin The Faces of Nature in Enlightment Europe, (Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2003), pp. 211-236.
2005 Kathleen Broome Williams and her book, "Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II" in The Naval Institute Press were recognized for the 2005 award.

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