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The Madame Curie Complex
The Hidden History of Women in Science
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Artikel-Nr:
9781558616134
Veröffentl:
2010
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.03.2010
Seiten:
352
Autor:
Julie Des Jardins
Gewicht:
348 g
Format:
218x154x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Julie Des Jardins teaches American history at Baruch College, CUNY, and writes on gender and American women. Previously, she was a lecturer at Harvard University, where she was awarded the Alan Heimert Prize for Seminar Teaching. Des Jardins has a PhD in American history from Brown University and has taught the history of gender, race, and feminism since 2000. She is also the author of Women and the Historical Enterprise in America.
The real-life stories behind the gendering of science.
Introduction; Madame Curie's American Tours: Women & Science in the 1920s; Making Science Domestic & Domesticity Scientific: The Ambiguous Life & Work of Lillian Gilbreth; Negotiating the Masculine Bastions of Science: Annie Cannon & the Women of the Harvard Observatory, 1880-1940; What Science Made Invisible: The Women of the Manhattan Project; Nobels & Nuptials: Prize-winning & Partnering in the Heroic Age; Generational Differences in Post-war Women Physicists; The Lady Trimates: Feminine of Feminist Science?