Description |
xii, 365 pages : portraits ; 24 cm |
Series |
The Douglass series on women's lives and the meaning of gender |
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Douglass series on women's lives and the meaning of gender.
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Contents |
Before objectivity : wives, patronage, and cultural reproduction in early nineteenth-century French science / Dorinda Outram -- Botany in the breakfast room : women and early nineteenth-century British plant study / Ann B. Shteir -- Many faces of intimacy : professional options and personal choices among nineteenth- and twentieth-century women physicians / Regina M. Morantz-Sanchez -- Field work and family : North American women ornithologists, 1900-1950 / Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley -- Nineteenth-century American women botanists : wives, widows, and work / Nancy G. Slack -- Marital collaboration : an approach to science / Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie -- Maria Mitchell and the advancement of women in science / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt -- "Strangers to each other" : male and female relationships in the life and work of Clémence Royer / Joy Harvey -- Career and home life in the 1880s : choices of mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaia / Ann Hibner Koblitz -- Marie Curie's "anti-natural path" : time only for science and family / Helena M. Pycior -- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin : astronomy in the family / Peggy A. Kidwell -- Synergy or clash : disciplinary and marital strategies in the career of mathematical biologist Dorothy Wrinch / Pnina G. Abir-Am |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [281]-354 |
Subject |
Women in science.
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Women scientists -- Biography.
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Women scientists.
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Author |
Abir-Am, Pnina G., 1947-
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Outram, Dorinda.
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LC no. |
87009660 |
ISBN |
0813512557 |
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0813512565 |
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