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Title Crossing boundaries, building bridges : comparing the history of women engineers, 1870s-1990s / edited by Annie Canel, Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann
Published Amsterdam : Harwood Academic, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 291 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; v. 12
Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; v. 12.
Contents Foreword : musings about the woman engineer as muse / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- Introduction : Crossing boundaries, building bridges : comparing the history of women engineers, 1870s-1990s / Ruth Oldenziel, Annie Canel, and Karin Zachmann -- Multiple-entry visas: gender and engineering in the US, 1870-1945 / Ruth Oldenziel -- "Am I a lady or an engineer?" : the origins of the Women's Engineering Society in Britain, 1918-1940 / Carroll Pursell -- Educating men : women and the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, 1880-1930 / Boel Berner -- A woman's challenge : the Petersburg Polytechnic Institute for Women, 1905-1918 / Dmitri Gouzévitch and Irina Gouzévitch -- Maintaining the walls : women engineers at the École Polytechnique Féminine and the Grandes Écoles in France / Annie Canel -- Precarious victories : the entry of women into engineering studies in Austria, 1900-1945 / Juliane Mikoletzky -- Women in army research : ambivalent careers in Nazi Germany / Annette Vogt -- Mobilizing womanpower : women, engineers, and the East German state in the Cold War / Karin Zachmann -- A pyrrhic victory : Greek women's conquest of a profession in crisis, 1923-1996 / Konstantinos Chatzis and Efthymios Nicolaïdis -- Epilogue : Women engineers in western Germany : Will we ever be taken for granted? / Moniko Greif
Summary These papers provide an investigation of the contribution made by women to the traditionally male-dominated industry of engineering. Women engineers are looked at in an historical context, and from a cross-cultural and socio-economic perspective
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Women engineers -- Social conditions
Women in engineering -- History -- 19th century
Women in engineering -- History -- 20th century
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Engineering (General)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Reference.
Women in engineering
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Canel, Annie.
Oldenziel, Ruth, 1958-
Zachmann, Karin.
ISBN 9780203986240
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9781135286811
9786610151349
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