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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450063603321

Titolo

Crossing boundaries, building bridges : comparing the history of women engineers 1870s-1990s / / edited by Annie Canel, Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Australia : , : Harwood Academic Publishers, , 2000

ISBN

1-135-28681-7

1-280-15134-X

9786610151349

0-203-98624-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; ; v. 12

Altri autori (Persone)

CanelAnnie

OldenzielRuth <1958->

ZachmannKarin

Disciplina

620.008209

Soggetti

Women engineers - Social conditions

Women in engineering - History - 19th century

Women in engineering - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Foreword: Musings About The Woman Engineer As Muse; Notes on Contributors; Introduction Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges: Comparing The History of Women Engineers, 1870's–1990's; 1. Multiple-Entry Visas: Gender and Engineering in the US, 1870–1945; 2. 'Am I a Lady or an Engineer?' The Origins of the Women's Engineering Society In Britain, 1918–1940; 3. Educating Men: Women and the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, 1880–1930

4. A Woman's Challenge: The Petersburg Polytechnic Institute for Women, 1905–1918 5. Maintaining the Walls: Women Engineers at the École Polytechnique Féminine and the Grandes; 6. Precarious Victories: The Entry of Women Into Engineering Studies In Austria, 1900–1945; 7. Women in Army Research: Ambivalent Careers in Nazi Germany; 8. Mobilizing Woman power: Women, Engineers and the East German State



in the Cold War; 9. A Pyrrhic Victory: Greek Women's Conquest of a Profession in Crisis

Sommario/riassunto

These papers provide an investigation of the contribution made by women to the traditionally male-dominated industry of engineering. Women engineers are looked at in an historical context, and from a cross-cultural and socio-economic perspective.