A lab of one's own : science and suffrage in the First World War / Patricia Fara.
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Oxford university press, 2019.
Descrizione fisica:
XV, 334 p. : ill., ritr. ; 22 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of illustrations. List of abbreviations. Pt. 1. preserving the past, facing the future: 1. Snapshots: suffrage and science at Cambridge 2. A divided nation: class, gender and science in early twentieth-century Britain 3. Subjects of science: biological justifications of women's status. Pt. 2. Abandoning domesticity, working for the vote: 4. A new century: voting for science 5. Factories of science: women work for war 6. Ray Costelloe-Strachey: the life of a mathematical suffragist. Pt. 3. Corridors of science, crucibles of power: 7. Scientists in petticoats: women and science before the war 8. A scientific state: technological warfare in the early twentieth century 9. Taking over: women, science, and power during the war 10. Chemical campaigners: Ida Smedley and Martha Whiteley. Pt. 4. Scientific warfare, wartime welfare: 11. Soldiers of science: scientific women fighting on the home front 12. Scientists in Khaki: Mona Geddes and Helen Gwynne-Vaughan 13. Medical recruits: scientists care for the nation 14. From Scotland to Sebastopol: the wartime work of dr Isabel Emslie Hutton. Pt. 5. Citizenz of science in a post-war world: 15. Interwar normalities: scientific women and struggles for equality 16. Lessons of science: learning from the past to improve the future. Endnotes. Bibliography. Picture credits. Index
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