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9780203986240

Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges : Comparing the History of Women Engineers, 1870s-1990s

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  • ISBN13:

    9780203986240

  • ISBN10:

    0203986245

  • Copyright: 2000-12-21
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of women in this field. This book considers the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion of them.

Table of Contents

Multiple-Entry Visas: Gender and Engineering in the US, 1870-1945
'Am I a Lady or an Engineer?': The Origins of the Women's Engineering Society in Britain, 1918-40
Educating Men: Women and the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, 1880-1930
A Women's Challenge: The Petersburg Polytechnic Institute for Women, 1905-1918
Maintaining the Walls: Women Engineers at the Ecole Polytechnique Feminine and the Grandes Ecoles in France
Precarious Victories: The Entry of Women into Engineering Studies in Austria, 1900-1945
Women in Army Research: Ambivalent Careers in Nazi Germany
Mobilising Women Power: Women, Engineers and the East German State in the Cold War
A Pyhrric Victory: Greek Women's Conquest of a Profession in Crisis, 1923-1997
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