Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940JHU Press, 1982 - 439 páginas Winner of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Prize In volume one of this landmark study, focusing on developments up to 1940, Margaret Rossiter describes the activities and personalities of the numerous women scientists—astronomers, chemists, biologists, and psychologists—who overcame extraordinary obstacles to contribute to the growth of American science. This remarkable history recounts women's efforts to establish themselves as members of the scientific community and examines the forces that inhibited their active and visible participation in the sciences. |
Índice
PLATES | 1 |
4a Cornelia Clapp and Zoology Class | 21 |
Infiltration and Creative Philanthropy | 29 |
Ida Hyde | 41 |
Womens Work in Science | 51 |
of Agriculture | 61 |
Alice Fletcher with Winnebago Indians | 68 |
A Manly Profession | 73 |
Florence Sabin | 186 |
Agnes Fay Morgan | 202 |
Libbie Hyman | 211 |
Paper Reforms | 218 |
Alice C Evans | 231 |
Staff of the New York State Department of Health | 239 |
Stoicism | 248 |
Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson | 273 |
Preliminary Meeting of the American Chemical Society | 81 |
The Womens Movement the War and Madame Curie | 100 |
Growth Containment and Overqualification | 129 |
81 | 140 |
Nora Blatch deForest Campaigning for Suffrage | 147 |
Maria GoeppartMayer with Enrico Fermi | 155 |
Protest and Prestige | 160 |
Compensatory Recognition | 297 |
Naples Table Association | 307 |
Conclusion | 313 |
FIGURES | 378 |
Bibliography | 399 |
417 | |
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Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940 Margaret W. Rossiter Vista de fragmentos - 1982 |
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