Crossing boundaries, building bridges : comparing the history of women engineers, 1870s-1990s / / edited by Annie Canel, Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann
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| Titolo: |
Crossing boundaries, building bridges : comparing the history of women engineers, 1870s-1990s / / edited by Annie Canel, Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam, : Harwood Academic, c2000 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 620.008209 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women engineers - Social conditions |
| Women in engineering - History - 19th century | |
| Women in engineering - History - 20th century | |
| Altri autori: |
CanelAnnie
OldenzielRuth <1958->
ZachmannKarin
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Crossing boundaries, building bridges |
| ISBN: | 1-135-28681-7 |
| 1-280-15134-X | |
| 9786610151349 | |
| 0-203-98624-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822615603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; ; v. 12.