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

Name: Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives Women in Science, 1789-1979
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ISBN: 9780813512563

ISBN-10: 0813512565

ISBN-13: 9780813512563

Edition: 1987

Authors: Pnina Abir-Am, Dorinda Outram

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Book details

List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 11/1/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Dorinda Outram is Clark Professor of History at the University of Rochester. Her previous publications include Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979 (1987) and The Body and the French Revolution: Sex, Class and Political Culture (1989).



List of Illustrations


Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Social-Historical Studies



Before Objectivity: Wives, Patronage, and Cultural Reproduction in Early Nineteenth-Century French Science




Botany in the Breakfast Room: Women and Early Nineteenth-Century British Plant Study




The Many Faces of Intimacy: Professional Options and Personal Choices among Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women Physicians




Field Work and Family: North American Women Ornithologists, 1900-1950




Nineteenth-Century American Women Botanists: Wives, Widows, and Work




Marital Collaboration: An Approach to Science




Biographical Studies



Maria Mitchell and the Advancement of Women in Science




"Strangers to Each Other": Male and Female Relationships in the Life and Work of Clemence Royer




Career and Home Life in the 1880s: The Choices of Mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaia




Marie Curie's "Anti-natural Path": Time Only for Science and Family




Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: Astronomy in the Family




Synergy or Clash: Disciplinary and Marital Strategies in the Career of Mathematical Biologist Dorothy Wrinch



Notes and References


Notes on Contributors


Index