{"id":1338,"date":"2012-03-10T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blocs.iec.cat\/arban\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2012-03-10T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T13:00:24","slug":"patricia-fara-ghosts-of-women-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/2012\/03\/10\/patricia-fara-ghosts-of-women-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Fara, &#8220;Ghosts of Women Past&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Fara, &#8220;Ghosts of Women Past&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dimecres 21 de mar\u00e7, 12h<\/p>\n<p>Sala d&#8217;Actes de la Facultat de Ci\u00e8ncies de la UAB<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not agree with sex being brought into science at all. The idea of \u2018woman and science\u2019 is completely irrelevant. Either a woman is a good scientist, or she is not.\u201d This declaration of equality was made over a century ago, but there still very few women at the top levels of science. Thinking about the history of women in science can help us understand our attitudes today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1339\" style=\"width: 451px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/files\/2012\/03\/Fara1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1339\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1339\" title=\"Patricia Fara\" src=\"http:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/files\/2012\/03\/Fara1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricia Fara, Universitat de Cambridge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Patricia Fara is Senior Tutor and Director of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science at Clare College, and Affiliated Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science Department at the University of Cambridge. Some of her main publications are <em>Pandora\u2019s breeches: women, science and power<\/em> (London: Pimlico, 2004), <em>Sex, botany and empire: the stories of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks<\/em> (Duxford: Icon Books, 2003) and <em>Newton: the making of genius<\/em> (London: Macmillan, 2002). Her latest book is <em>Science : A \u00a0four thousand year history<\/em> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), translated into Spanish as <em>Breve historia de la ciencia<\/em> (Barcelona: Ariel, 2009).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Fara, &#8220;Ghosts of Women Past&#8221; Dimecres 21 de mar\u00e7, 12h Sala d&#8217;Actes de la Facultat de Ci\u00e8ncies de la UAB \u201cI do not agree with sex being brought into science at all. The idea of \u2018woman and science\u2019 is completely irrelevant. Either a woman is a good scientist, or she is not.\u201d This declaration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arban.espais.iec.cat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}