Uneasy careers and intimate lives : women in science, 1789-1979

Author(s)

• Abir-Am, Pnina G.
• Outram, Dorinda

Bibliographic Information

Uneasy careers and intimate lives : women in science, 1789-1979

edited by Pnina G. Abir-Am and Dorinda Outram ; with a foreword by Margaret W. Rossiter

（The Douglass series on women's lives and the meaning of gender）

Rutgers University Press, c1987

Note

Bibliography: p.[281]-354

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BA0694164X
• ISBN:
  • 0813512557
  • 0813512565
• LCCN: 87009660
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New Brunswick
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 365 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : Q130
  • DC19 : 500
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Women in science
  • LCSH : Women scientists
  • LCSH : Women scientists -- Biography
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00484727