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by Elizabeth Potter


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Boyle's Law, which describes the relation between the pressure and volume of a gas, was worked out by Robert Boyle in the mid-1600s. His experiments are still considered examples of good scientific work and continue to be studied along with their historical and intellectual contexts by philosophers, historians, and sociologists. Now there is controversy over whether Boyle's work was based only on experimental evidence or whether it was influenced by the politics and religious controversies of the time, including especially class and gender politics.

Elizabeth Potter argues that even good science is sometimes influenced by such issues, and she shows that the work leading to the Gas Law, while certainly based on physical evidence, was also shaped by class and gendered considerations. At issue were two descriptions of nature, each supporting radically different visions of class and gender arrangements. Boyle's Law rested on mechanistic principles, but Potter shows us an alternative law based on hylozooic principles (the belief that all matter is animated), whose adherents challenged social stability and the status quo in 17th-century England.

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In this chapter, we will see that Robert Boyle thought about gender; chapter 8 below includes detailed discussion of his writings about femininity.

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  • Title Gender and Boyle's Law of Gases
  • Author Elizabeth Potter
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-04-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780253214553 / 0253214556
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.04 x 0.66 in (22.86 x 15.34 x 1.68 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Boyle's law, Science - England - History - 17th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00061398
  • Dewey Decimal Code 509.420

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  • Choice, 01/01/2002, Page 901

About the author

Elizabeth Potter is the Alice Andrews Quigley Professor of
Women's Studies at Mills College. She is co-editor of Feminist Epistemologies and author of numerous articles in feminist epistemology and feminist philosophy of science.

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