Science on the home front : American women scientists in World War II

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    • Jack, Jordynn

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Science on the home front : American women scientists in World War II

Jordynn Jack

University of Illinois Press, c2009

  • : pbk

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注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

収録内容

  • 1. Women psychologists forecast opportunity
  • 2. Women anthropologists study Japanese internment
  • 3. Women physicists on the Manhattan Project
  • 4. Women nutritionists on the National Research Council

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内容説明

During World War II, women scientists responded to urgent calls for their participation in the war effort. Even though newspapers, magazines, books, and films forecasted tremendous growth in scientific and technical jobs for women, the war produced few long-term gains in the percentage of women in the sciences or in their overall professional standing. In Science on the Home Front, Jordynn Jack argues that it was the very language of science--the discourses and genres of scientific communication--that helped to limit women's progress in science even as it provided opportunities for a small group of prominent female scientists to advance during the war. The book uses the experiences of individual women--from physicists Leona Marshall and Katharine Way, who worked on the Manhattan Project, to Lydia J. Roberts, who developed the Recommended Dietary Allowances--to illuminate the broader limitations of masculine scientific culture and its discourses of expertise, gender neutrality, technical expediency, and objectivity. Focusing on genres of women scientists' writing in the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, physics, and nutrition, the study identifies key characteristics of scientific culture and rhetoric that continue to limit women's advancement in science and to stifle their unique perspectives.

目次

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Women Psychologists Forecast Opportunity 13 2. Women Anthropologists Study Japanese Internment 40 3. Women Physicists on the Manhattan Project 71 4. Women Nutritionists on the National Research Council 99 Conclusion: Regendering Scientific Cultures 127 Notes 139 Bibliography 145 Index 159

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