Scientists & Medical Figures - Women's Biography, Scientists - General & Miscellaneous - Biography, Science - General & Miscellaneous
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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
Book Details
Published
March 1, 1988
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pages
400
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780813512556