Abir-Am, Pnina G.; & Outram, Dorinda; editors:
Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979
New Brunswick [NJ], Rutgers University Press, (1989). 2nd printing, orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xii,365 pp, Series: The Douglass Series on Women’s Lives and the Meaning of Gender.. Textual photo illustrations.. Spine rubbed. Some cover soil. Good+.
¶ Contains 12 papers. Includes: D. Outram "Before Objectivity: Wives, Patronage & Cultural Reproduction in Early 19th-Century French Science"; A.B. Shteir "Botany in the Breakfast Room: Women & Early 19th-Century British Plant Study"; R.M. Morantz-Sanchez "The Many Faces of Intimacy: Professional Options & Personal Choices among 19th- & 20th-Century Women Physicians"; M. Gosztonyi i Ainley "Field Work & Family: North American Women Ornithologists, 1900 - 1950"; N.G. Slack "19th-Century American Women Botanists: Wives, Widows & Work"; M.B. Ogilvie "Marital Collaboration: An Approach to Science"; S.G. Kohlstedt "Maria Mitchell & the Advancement of Women in Science"; J. Harvey: " 'Strangers to Each Other': Male & Female Relationships in the Life & Work of Clémence Royar"; A.H. Koblitz "Career & Home Life in the 1880s: The Choices of Mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaia"; H,.M. Pycior "Marie Curie's 'Anti- Natural Path': Time Only for Science & Family"; P.A. Kidwell "Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: Astronomy in the Family"; P.G. Abir-Am "Synergy or Clash:Disciplinary & Marital Strategies in the Career of Mathematical Biologist Dorothy Wrinch".

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