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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824292903321

Autore

Des Jardins Julie

Titolo

The Madame Curie complex : the hidden history of women in science / / Julie des Jardins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Feminist Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-74682-0

9786612746826

1-55861-655-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

Women writing science

Disciplina

500.82

Soggetti

Women scientists

Women engineers

Women in science

Women in engineering

Sex role - United States - History

Spouses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Assistants, housekeepers, and interchangeable parts : women scientists and professionalization, 1880-1940. Madame Curie's American tours : women and science in the 1920's ; 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 Birute Galdikas -- Apes, corn, and silent springs : a women's tradition of science?

Sommario/riassunto

The Madame Curie Complex gives fresh insight into the barriers and



successes for women in science, and sheds light on the way our cultural ideas of gender have shaped the profession.