Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges

by Canel,Annie

• ISBN13: 9789058230683
• ISBN10: 9058230686
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of the patterns of employment and education of women in this field. Most studies are either policy papers or limited to statistical analyses. Moreover, the scant historical research so far available emphasizes the individual, single and unique character of those women working in engineering, often using anecdotal evidence but ignoring larger issues like the patterns of the labour market and educational institutions. Richly illustrated,Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridgesoffers answers to the question why women engineers have required special permits to pass through the male guarded gates of engineering and examines how they have managed this. It explores the differences and similarities between women engineers in nine countries from a gender point of view. Through case studies the book considers the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion of women engineers f

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
List of Tables	xi
Foreword Musings about the Woman Engineer as Muse	xiii
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Notes on Contributors	xvii
Introduction Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges: Comparing The History of Women Engineers 1970s--1990s	1	(10)
Ruth Oldenziel Annie Canel
Karin Zachmann
Multiple-Entry Visas: Gender and Engineering in the US, 1870--1945	11	(40)
Ruth Oldenziel
`Am I a Lady or an Engineer?' The Origins of the Women's Engineering Society in Britain, 1918--1940	51	(24)
Carroll Pursell
Educating Men: Women and the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, 1880--1930	75	(28)
Boel Berner
A Woman's Challenge: The Petersburg Polytechnic Institute For Women, 1905--1918	103	(24)
Dmitri Gouzevitch
Irina Gouzevitch
Maintaining the Walls: Women Engineers at the Ecole Polytechnique Feminine and the Grandes Ecoles in France	127	(32)
Annie Canel
Precarious Victories: The Entry of Women into Engineering Studies in Austria, 1900--1945	159	(30)
Juliane Mikoletzky
Women in Army Research: Ambivalent Careers in Nazi Germany	189	(22)
Annette Vogt
Mobilizing Womanpower: Women, Engineers and the East German State in the Cold War	211	(42)
Karin Zachmann
A Pyrrhic Victory: Greek Women's Conquest of a Profession in Crisis, 1923--1996	253	(26)
Konstantions Chatzis
Efthymios Nicolaidis
Epilogue Women Engineers in Western Germany: Will We Ever Be Taken For Granted?	279	(4)
Moniko Greif
Index	283