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    Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives
    Women in Science, 1789-1979

    Pnina Abir-Am (Edited by), Dorinda Outram (Edited by)

    9780813512563

    Paperback / softback, published 1 November 1987

    384 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.513 kg

    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. 

    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
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