Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979
Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979
edited by Pnina Abir-Am and Dorinda Outram
Rutgers University Press, 1987 Paper: 978-0-8135-1256-3 | Cloth: 978-0-8135-1255-6 Library of Congress Classification Q130.U525 1987 Dewey Decimal Classification 500
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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