A Mind of Her Own
A Mind of Her Own
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她有自己的想法
作者：
Cristina Chimisso;Gad Freudenthal
1933年5月，化学历史学家h<s:1> l<e:1>·梅茨格给著名的历史学家和科学哲学家Émile迈耶森写了一封信，对迈耶森对她的傲慢态度发出了强烈的抗议。这封最近发现的信件在这里发表和翻译，因为它是一份特殊的人类文件，反映了我们学科在两次世界大战之间的法国的性别权力结构。在四十三岁的时候，梅茨格已经出版了五本书，但她仍然是法国历史学家和科学哲学家这个完全由男性组成的圈子里的一名初级学者。我们概述了当时法国高等教育的制度设置，注意到它为女性学者提供的有限机会，并将梅茨格置于这种背景下。我们还描述了梅茨格和迈耶森之间的哲学差异。尽管梅茨格从未设法获得自己的职位，但在她给迈耶森的信中，她至少有力地宣称，她有自己的想法。
In May 1933 the historian of chemistry Hélène Metzger addressed a letter to the renowned historian and philosopher of science Émile Meyerson, a cri de coeur against Meyerson’s patronizing attitude toward her. This recently discovered letter is published and translated here because it is an exceptional human document reflecting the gender power structure of our discipline in interwar France. At the age of forty‐three, and with five books to her credit, Metzger was still a junior scholar in the exclusively male community of French historians and philosophers of science. We sketch the institutional setting of higher learning in France at the time, noting the limited openings it offered to would‐be femmes savantes, and situate Metzger in this context. We also describe the philosophical differences between Metzger and Meyerson. Though Metzger never managed to obtain a post of her own, in her letter to Meyerson she forcefully lays claim, at least, to a mind of her own.