Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979 / Edition 1

by Pnina Abir-Am, Dorinda Outram

Overview

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. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813512563
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	11/01/1987
Series:	Lives of Women in Science
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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