Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800-1900
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (755 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810832879 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 452 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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W Boudville said Sparse data. Candidly, you are unlikely to have heard of many of the women described in this book. Male scientists from that century are often forgotten today, unless they really were the giants in their fields. So it is that much harder for any females to be remembered now.The book restricts itself to Britain and the US. Because despite the well described discrimination against the women in the book, those countries were the most receptive to female researchers. A telling commentary of the social mores of that time, even amongst the most educated and supposedly le
A systematic survey and comparison of the work of 19th-century American and British women in scientific research, this book covers the two countries in which women of the period were most active in scientific work and examines all the fields in which they were engaged. This well-organized blend of individual life stories and quantitative information presents a great deal of new data and field-by-field analysis; its broad and methodical coverage will make it a basic work for everyone interested in the story of women's participation in nineteenth century science.. Through this comparison, new insights are provided into how the national patterns developed and what they meant, in terms of both the process of women's
Creese is an associate at the Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas. Mary R.S. After almost thirty years as a reserch chemist, she turned to the subject of women's contributions to scientific work and has published more than 20 articles on early women scientists.
(Rusq)Mary Creese has put together a splendid survey of those pioneering scientific women that helps to match names and lives with those women who faced the challenges of society gives a wonderful picture of the scientific world from the perspective of these women (Bulletin For The History Of Chemistry)Nevertheless, Mary and Thomas Creese have provided a dense volume that will be of great value to British and American historians of science and should be in all academic libraries. (Arba)Useful as a reference and an encyclopedia (Science Books And Films)It is a reference work, and will be most useful (indeed indi