Gender and Boyle's Law of Gases

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gender and boyle’s law of gases GENDER AND LAW GASES BOYLES OF Elizabeth Potter ’ Gender and Boyle’s Law of Gases Race, Gender, and Science Anne Fausto-Sterling, General Editor Feminism and Science / Nancy Tuana, Editor The “Racial” Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future / Sandra Harding, Editor The Less Noble Sex: Scienti¤c, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman’s Nature / Nancy Tuana Love, Power, and Knowledge: Towards a Feminist Transformation of the Sciences / Hillary Rose Women’s Health—Missing from U.S. Medicine / Sue V. Rosser Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture / Jennifer Terry and Jacqueline Urla, Editors Im/partial Science: Gender Ideology in Molecular Biology / Bonnie B. Spanier Reinventing Biology: Respect for Life and the Creation of Knowledge / Lynda Birke and Ruth Hubbard, Editors Reinventing the Sexes: The Biomedical Construction of Femininity and Masculinity / Marianne van den Wijngaart Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference / Claudia Henrion Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies / Sandra Harding Common Science? Women, Minorities, and Science / Jean Barr and Lynda Birke Toward a Global Science: Mining Civilizational Knowledge / Susantha Goonatilake Elizabeth Potter Gender and Boyle’s Law of Gases Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA http://iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e-mail iuporder@indiana.edu© 2000 by Elizabeth Potter All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Potter, Elizabeth. Gender and Boyle’s law of gases / Elizabeth Potter. p. cm. — (Race, gender, and science) Includes index. ISBN 0-253-33916-2 (cl : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-253-21455-6 (pa : alk. paper) 1. Boyle’s law. 2. Hylozoism. 3. Science—England—History— 17th century. I. Title. II. Series. QC161 .P68 2001 509.42′09′032—dc21 00-061398 1 2 3 4 5 06 05 04 03 02 01 ...