Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives

Women in Science, 1789-1979

Pnina Abir-Am, Dorinda Outram (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

1987
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-1256-3 (ISBN)

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These pioneering studies of women in science pay special attention to the mutual impact of family life and scientific career. The contributors address five key themes: historical changes in such concepts as scientific career, profession, patronage, and family; differences in "gender image" associated with various branches of science; consequences of national differences and emigration; opportunities for scientific work opened or closed by marriage; and levels of women's awareness about the role of gender in science.

An international group of historians of science discuss a wide range of European and American women scientists--from early nineteenth-century English botanists to Marie Curie to the twentieth-century theoretical biologist, Dorothy Wrinch.

DORINDA OUTRAM, Lecturer in Modern History, University College, Cork, Republic of Ireland, is the author of Georges Cuvier: Vocation, Science, and Authority in Post-Revolutionary France.

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Margaret W. Rossiter
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Social-Historical Studies
Part II. Biographical Studies
Notes and References
Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.1988
Reihe/Serie	Lives of Women in Science
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	513 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8135-1256-5 / 0813512565
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-1256-3 / 9780813512563
Zustand	Neuware