The Madame Curie complex : the hidden history of women in science / Julie des Jardins.

• Assistants, housekeepers, and interchangeable parts : women scientists and professionalization, 1880-1940. Madame Curie's American tours : women and science in the 1920s ; Making science domestic and domesticity scientific : the ambiguous life and ambidextrous work of Lillian Gilbreth ; To embrace or decline marriage and family : Annie Jump Cannon and the women of the Harvard Observatory, 1880-1940 -- The cult of masculinity in the age of heroic science, 1941-1962. Those science made invisible : finding the women of the Manhattan Project ; Maria Goeppert Mayer and Rosalind Franklin : the politics of partners and prizes in the heroic age of science -- American women and science in transition, 1962- . Generational divides : Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Evelyn Fox Keller, Barbara McClintock, and feminism after 1963 ; The lady trimates and feminist science? : Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas -- Apes, corn, and silent springs : a women's tradition of science?. 

• This work gives insight into the barriers and successes for women in science, and sheds light on the way our cultural ideas of gender have shaped the profession. Why are the fields of science and technology still considered to be predominantly male professions? This work moves beyond the most common explanations, limited access to professional training, lack of resources, exclusion from social networks of men, to give historical context and unexpected revelations about women's contributions to the sciences. Exploring the lives of Jane Goodall, Rosalind Franklin, Rosalyn Yalow, Barbara McClintock, Rachel Carson, and the women of the Manhattan Project, the author considers their personal and professional stories in relation to their male counterparts, Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, to demonstrate how the gendered culture of science molds the methods, structure, and experience of the work. The book reveals how women scientists have often asked different questions, used different methods, come up with different explanations for phenomena in the natural world, and how they have forever transformed a scientist's role. 

Ämnesord

Women in science  (LCSH)

Women in engineering  (LCSH)

Spouses  (LCSH)

Women scientists  -- Biography (LCSH)

Women engineers  -- Biography (LCSH)

Sex role  -- United States -- History (LCSH)

Forskare  (kao)

Kemister  (kao)

Ingenjörer  (kao)

Researchers  (kao//eng)

Chemists  (kao//eng)

Engineers  (kao//eng)

Astronomer  (kao)

Astronomers  (kao//eng)

Fysiker  (kao)

Physicists  (kao//eng)

Kvinnorollen  (kao)

Female role  (kao//eng)

Naturvetenskap  (kao)

Natural sciences  (kao//eng)

Forskningsperspektiv  (kao)

Research perspectives  (kao//eng)

Kvinnliga forskare  -- historia (sao)

Kvinnliga vetenskapsmän  -- historia (sao)

Vetenskapshistoria  -- genusaspekter (sao)

Vetenskapssociologi  -- genusaspekter (sao)

1900-talet  (kao)

20th century  (kao//eng)

1800-talet  (kao)

19th century  (kao//eng)

Genre

Biografi  (kao)

Biography  (kao//eng)

Personnamn

Curie, Marie, 1867-1934

Gilbreth, Lillian, 1878-1972

Jump Cannon, Annie, 1863-1941

Mayer, Maria Goeppert

Franklin, Rosalind, 1920-1958

Fox Keller, Evelyn, 1936-

McClintock, Barbara, 1902-1992

Goodall, Jane, 1934-

Fossey, Dian, 1932-1985

Galdikas, Biruté, 1946-

Sussman Yalow, Rosalyn, 1921-2011

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Bf:oa Allmän vetenskaplig och kulturell verksamhet: sociologi

Ohja Kvinnofrågor

Klassifikation

Q141 (LCC)

500.82 (DDC)

Bf:oa (kssb/8)

Ohja (kssb/8)