Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 291 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; v. 12 |
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Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; v. 12.
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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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Print version record |
Subject |
Women engineers -- Social conditions
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Women in engineering -- History -- 19th century
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Women in engineering -- History -- 20th century
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Engineering (General)
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Reference.
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Women in engineering
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Canel, Annie.
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Oldenziel, Ruth, 1958-
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Zachmann, Karin.
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ISBN |
9780203986240 |
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0203986245 |
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9789058230683 |
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9058230686 |
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9789058230690 |
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9058230694 |
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1135286817 |
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9781135286811 |
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9786610151349 |
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6610151342 |
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