Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979

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Pnina G. Abir-Am, Dorinda Outram
Rutgers University Press, 1987 - Science - 365 pages
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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