Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives

by Abir-Am, Pnina G.; Outram, Dorinda

• ISBN13: 9780813512563
• ISBN10: 0813512565
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-11-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

These pioneering studies of women in science pay special attention to the mutual impact of family life and scientific career. The contributors address five key themes: historical changes in such concepts as scientific career, profession, patronage, and family; differences in "gender image" associated with various branches of science; consequences of national differences and emigration; opportunities for scientific work opened or closed by marriage; and levels of women's awareness about the role of gender in science.

Author Biography

Pnina Abir-Am is a visiting scholar in the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Social-Historical Studies
Before Objectivity: Wives, Patronage, and Cultural Reproduction in Early Nineteenth-Century French Science	p. 19
Botany in the Breakfast Room: Women and Early Nineteenth-Century British Plant Study	p. 31
The Many Faces of Intimacy: Professional Options and Personal Choices among Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women Physicians	p. 45
Field Work and Family: North American Women Ornithologists, 1900-1950	p. 60
Nineteenth-Century American Women Botanists: Wives, Widows, and Work	p. 77
Marital Collaboration: An Approach to Science	p. 104
Biographical Studies
Maria Mitchell and the Advancement of Women in Science	p. 129
"Strangers to Each Other": Male and Female Relationships in the Life and Work of Clemence Royer	p. 147
Career and Home Life in the 1880s: The Choices of Mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaia	p. 172
Marie Curie's "Anti-natural Path": Time Only for Science and Family	p. 191
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: Astronomy in the Family	p. 216
Synergy or Clash: Disciplinary and Marital Strategies in the Career of Mathematical Biologist Dorothy Wrinch	p. 239
Notes and References	p. 281
Notes on Contributors	p. 355
Index	p. 357
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