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

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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. 

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