Madame Curie Complex The Hidden History of Women in Science

Name: Madame Curie Complex The Hidden History of Women in Science
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ISBN: 9781558616134

ISBN-10: 1558616136

ISBN-13: 9781558616134

Edition: 2010

Authors: Julie Des Jardins

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List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Publication date: 6/8/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction: Through the Lives of Women Scientists



Assistants, Housekeepers, and Interchangeable Parts: Women Scientists and Professionalization 1880-1940



Madame Curie's American Tours: Women and Science in the 1920s



Making Science Domestic and Domesticity Scientific: The Ambiguous Life and Ambidextrous Work of Lillian Gilbreth



To Embrace or Decline Marriage and Family: Annie Jump Cannon and the Women of the Harvard Observatory, 1880-1940



The Cult of Masculinity in the Age of Heroic Science, 1941-1962



Those Science Made Invisible: Finding the Women of the Manhattan Project



Maria Goeppert Mayer and Rosalind Franklin: The Politics of Partners and Prizes in the Heroic Age of Science



American Women and Science in Transition, 1962



Generational Divides: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Evelyn Fox Keller, Barbara McClintock, and Feminism after 1963



The Lady Trimates and Feminist Science?: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birutï¿½ Galdikas


Conclusion: Apes, Corn, and Silent Springs: A Women's Tradition of Science?


Acknowledgments


Index