Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979Pnina G. Abir-Am, Dorinda Outram 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. |
Contents
Wives Patronage and Cultural | 19 |
Women and Early | 31 |
Illustration from The Children and the Flowers by Emily Ayton | 35 |
Professional Options | 45 |
North American Women | 60 |
Martha Maxwell 1876 | 73 |
19 | 84 |
45 | 91 |
A caricature of Clémence Royer | 149 |
The Choices | 172 |
Time Only | 191 |
Marie and Irène Curie in the Laboratoire Curie in 1923 | 211 |
Astronomy in | 216 |
Cecilia Payne Harlow Shapley and the rest of the Harvard | 222 |
Edward Cecilia Katherine and Sergei Gaposchkin about | 229 |
Disciplinary and Marital | 239 |
Elizabeth Britton at work at her microscope | 96 |
An Approach to Science | 104 |
Maria Mitchell and the Advancement of Women | 129 |
Male and Female | 147 |
Wrinch and colleagues at a meeting of the Biotheoretical | 259 |
Notes and References | 281 |
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