1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480278003321

Autore

Grimshaw Patricia

Titolo

Women's Suffrage in New Zealand [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland University Press, 2013

ISBN

1-77558-243-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Disciplina

324.62309931

Soggetti

New Zealand -- Government and politics

Women -- Suffrage -- New Zealand

Women -- Suffrage

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Preface; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Introduction; 1 : The New Woman; 2 : Early Parliaments and Women's Rights; 3 : Women and the Temperance Movement; 4 : The Women's Christian Temperance Union; 5 : The Suffrage Movement Gathers Way; 6 : The Movement in Full Swing; 7 : The Politicians' Dilemma; 8 : The Debate on Women's Suffrage; 9 : Success; 10 : The First Election; 11 : Liberals, Teetotallers, or Feminists?; 12 : Post Mortem on the Suffrage; Bibliography; A, B, C; Index; D, E, F; G, H, I; J, K, L; M, N, O; P, Q, R; S, T, U; V, W, X; Y, Z; Plates

Copyright

Sommario/riassunto

The definitive account of the New Zealand suffrage movement, <I>Women's Suffrage in New Zealand</I> remains the only study of how New Zealand became the first country in the world to give women the vote. It tells the fascinating story of the courage and the determination of the early New Zealand feminists led by the remarkable Kate Sheppard, whose ideas and attitudes still resonate today.<div></DIV>



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910548161303321

Titolo

Legitimizing ESS : big science as a collaboration across boundaries / / edited by Thomas Kaiserfeld & Tom O'Dell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lund, Sweden : , : Nordic Academic Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

91-87351-46-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Disciplina

539.758

Soggetti

Neutrons - Scattering - Research

Research - International cooperation

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.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction. The European Spallation Source; Big Science in a small Swedish university town; 1. The ESS from neutron gap to global strategy; Plans for an international research facility after the cold war; 2. Myths and realities of the ESS project; A systematic scrutiny of readily accepted 'truths'; 3. Mobile spaces of affect; A cultural history of the future; Colour section 1; 4. The ESS in the local news media; Expectations, investigations, and mobilization; 5. The ESS and the geography of innovation; 6. Reaching the inside from the outside?

Member identification and auto-communication during organizational transition7. Social media and research practices in Big Science; The example of MAX-lab; 8. Designing for the future; Scientific instruments as technical objects in experimental systems; 9. Believing in the ESS; Scale, vision, and pioneering; Colour section 2; 10. Technoscience comes to Lund; The ESS and the Enlightenment vision; 11. The momentum of maturity; What to do with ageing Big Science facilities; About the authors

Sommario/riassunto

""Big Science"" is a broad epithet that can be associated with research projects that involve huge budgets, big facilities, complex instrumentation, years of planning, and large multidisciplinary teams of



researchers. Legitimizing the ESS examines the complexity of the cultural, social, and political processes from which and in which Big Science develops by focusing on the planning and development of the European Spallation Source, ESS, that is to be located in Lund in southern Sweden. Together, the chapters represent a variety of perspectives to highlight the complexity of the processes that