Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Roberta Johnson
Introduction
“The Story of Women and STEM in Spanish Culture”
Victoria L. Ketz, Dawn Smith-Sherwood, & Debra Faszer-McMahon
Part I: On Role Models: Female Scientists and Spanish Letters
Chapter One
“Las chicas raras de STEM: Recuperating #WomensPlace in Spanish Literary and Scientific Histories”
Dawn Smith-Sherwood
Chapter Two
“‘The Doctor Is In’: Elena Arnedo Soriano (1941-2015), Women’s Health, and the Cultural History of Gender and Medicine in Spain”
Silvia Bermúdez
Chapter Three
“Gender and the Critique of ‘Ascientific Traditions’: Science as Text and Intertext in Rosa Montero’s La ridícula idea de no volver a verte”
Ellen Mayock
Chapter Four
“From la santidad de la escoba to la trinidad higiénica: Rosario de Acuña (1851-1923) and a More Inclusive Vision of Spain’s Public Health
Erika M. Sutherland
Chapter Five
“Science, History, and Gender: An Interview with María Jesús Santesmases”
María Jesús Santesmases, Victoria L. Ketz and Debra Faszer-McMahon
Part II: On STE(A)M: Integrating Scientific Inquiry into the Cultural Realm
Chapter Six
“Science in the Works of Clara Janés: A Poetics of Theoretical (Meta)physics”
Debra Faszer-McMahon
Chapter Seven
“An Extension of Sympathy: Science and Posthumanism in the Paintings of Remedios Varo”
Marta del Pozo Ortea
Chapter Eight
“Subversive, Combative, Corrective: Carmen de Burgos’ Interventionist Translation of Möbius’ Űber den physiologischen Schwachsinn des Weibes [The Mental Inferiority of Women]”
Leslie Anne Merced
Chapter Nine
“Contrasting Images of Women Scientists in the Early Post-war Period (1940-45)
and the Novel María Elena, ingeniero de caminos by Mercedes Ballesteros
Miguel Soler Gallo
Chapter Ten
“Unorthodox Theories and Beings: Science, Technology, and Women in the Narratives of Rosa Montero”
Maryanne L. Leone
Part III: On Gender: Using STEM to Critique Gendered Roles
Chapter Eleven
“Biotech, Barceló, Bustelo: Reproduction, Motherhood and Gendered Hierarchies
in Spanish Science Fiction”
Mirla González
Chapter Twelve
“Challenging Boundaries of Time, Science, and Gender: Einstein’s Theory of Relativity in Mayoral’s ‘Admirados colegas’”
Victoria L. Ketz
Chapter Thirteen
“Technological Portrayals: Framing Fernandinas in the Colonial Context through Photography and Press during the Spanish Second Republic”
Inés Plasencia
Chapter Fourteen
“Punishing Narratives: The Challenges of Gender and Scientific Authority
in Spanish Science Fiction Film”
Raquel Vega-Durán
Appendix: List of Works by Genre Addressed in this Volume
Index
