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Science on the home front : American women scientists in World War II / Jordynn Jack.
LIBRA Q130 .J33 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jack, Jordynn, 1977-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in science--United States--History--20th century.
- Women in science.
- Women scientists--United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Women scientists.
- Feminism and science--United States--History--20th century.
- Feminism and science.
- Sex discrimination in science--United States--History--20th century.
- Sex discrimination in science.
- History.
- Intellectual life.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 165 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- During World War II, women scientists responded to urgent calls for their participation in the war effort. Even though newspapers, magazines, books, and films forecasted tremendous growth in scientific and technical jobs for women, the war produced few long-term gains in the percentage of women in the sciences or in their overall professional standing.
- In Science on the Home Front, Jordynn Jack argues that it was the very language of science&the discourses and genres of scientific communication -that helped to limit women's progress in science even as it provided opportunities for a small group of prominent female scientists to advance during the war. The book uses the experiences of individual women-from physicists Leona Marshall and Katharine Way, who worked on the Manhattan Project, to Lydia J. Roberts, who developed the Recommended Dietary Allowances-to illuminate the broader limitations of masculine scientific culture and its discourses of expertise, gender neutrality, technical expediency, and objectivity. Focusing on genres of women scientists' writing in the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, physics, and nutrition, the study identities key characteristics of scientific culture and rhetoric that continue to limit women's advancement in science and to stifle their unique perspectives.
- Contents:
- Women psychologists forecast opportunity
- Women anthropologists study Japanese internment
- Women physicists on the Manhattan Project
- Women nutritionists on the National Research Council.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252034701
- 0252034708
- 9780252076596
- 0252076591
- OCLC:
- 291193964
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