Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979Focuses on 19th and 20th century American and European women scientists. Great introduction by the editors of essays written by 12 women historians. References, notes and a decent index helps for further reading and wondering when the "men of science" will wake up and smell the coffee |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES | 8 |
Wives Patronage and Cultural | 19 |
Women and Early | 31 |
Professional Options | 45 |
North American Women | 60 |
Illustration from The Children and the Flowers by Emily Ayton | 63 |
Martha Maxwell 1876 | 73 |
A caricature of Clemence Royer | 149 |
The Choices | 172 |
Time Only | 191 |
Marie and Irene Curie in the Laboratoire Curie in 1923 | 211 |
Cecilia Payne Harlow Shapley and the rest of the Harvard | 222 |
Edward Cecilia Katherine and Sergei Gaposchkin about | 229 |
Disciplinary and Marital | 239 |
Wrinch and colleagues at a meeting of the Biotheoretical | 259 |
Elizabeth Britton at work at her microscope | 96 |
An Approach to Science | 104 |
Margaret Muggins | 114 |
Maria Mitchell and the Advancement of Women | 129 |
Male and Female | 147 |
Wrinch and her model of protein structure in 1941 | 265 |
Notes and References | 281 |
Notes on Contributors | 355 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979 Douglass Series on Women's Liv Douglass series on women's lives and the meaning of gender Lives of Women in Science Series |
| Editors | Pnina G. Abir-Am, Dorinda Outram |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Rutgers University Press, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0813512565, 9780813512563 |
| Length | 365 pages |
| Subjects | › Science / History Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects Social Science / Women's Studies |
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