Smitten by giraffe : my life as a citizen scientist / Anne Innis Dagg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dagg, Anne Innis, author.

Series:

Footprints series (Montréal, Quebec) ; 22.

Footprints (Cheltenham, England)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dagg, Anne Innis.

Women zoologists--Canada--Biography.

Women zoologists.

Women scientists--Canada--Biography.

Women scientists.

Women college teachers--Canada--Biography.

Women college teachers.

Women in higher education--Canada.

Women in higher education.

Sexism in higher education--Canada.

Sexism in higher education.

Giraffe--Africa.

Giraffe.

Africa.

Canada.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvelous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behavior of giraffe in the wild. Years later, Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey would be driven by a similar devotion to study the behavior of wild apes. In Smitten by Giraffe the noted feminist reflects on her scientific work as well as the leading role she has played in numerous activist campaigns. On returning home to Canada, Anne married physicist Ian Dagg, had three children, published a number of scientific papers, taught at several local universities, and in 1967 earned her PhD in biology at the University of Waterloo. Dagg was continually frustrated in her efforts to secure a position as a regular professor despite her many publications and very good teaching record. Finally she opted instead to pursue her research as an independent "citizen scientist," while working part time as an academic advisor. Dagg would spend many years fighting against the marginalization of women in the arts and sciences."-- Provided by publisher.

"Boldly documenting widespread sexism in Canadian universities while also discussing Dagg's involvement with important zoological topics such as homosexuality, infanticide, sociobiology, and taxonomy, Smitten by Giraffe offers an inside perspective on the workings of scientific research and debate, the history of Canadian academia, and the rise of second-wave feminism."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Family life

Giraffe research in Africa

Research, first teaching, and earning a PhD

Being a professor: teaching and research

Completing research on animal gaits

First scientific book on giraffe!

Environmental efforts, 1972-1988

A potpourri of interests, 1972-1980

A sexist university: how bad was it? Awful!

Social activism: working for equality for women in the arts

Follow-up: homosexuality, taxonomy, and mammalogists

Women and science at Canadian universities

Follow-up: university life, sociobiology, infanticide, and rape

Focusing again on animals

Return to giraffe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index.

Other Format:

Dagg, Anne Innis, 1933-, author. Smitten by giraffe.

ISBN:

9780773547995

0773547991

OCLC:

945029789