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Crossing boundaries, building bridges : comparing the history of women engineers, 1870s-1990s / edited by Annie Canel, Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; v. 12.
- Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; v. 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women engineers--Social conditions.
- Women engineers.
- Women in engineering--History--19th century.
- Women in engineering.
- Women in engineering--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Harwood Academic, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Foreword: Musings About The Woman Engineer As Muse; Notes on Contributors; Introduction Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges: Comparing The History of Women Engineers, 1870's–1990's; 1. Multiple-Entry Visas: Gender and Engineering in the US, 1870–1945; 2. 'Am I a Lady or an Engineer?' The Origins of the Women's Engineering Society In Britain, 1918–1940; 3. Educating Men: Women and the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, 1880–1930
- 4. A Woman's Challenge: The Petersburg Polytechnic Institute for Women, 1905–1918 5. Maintaining the Walls: Women Engineers at the École Polytechnique Féminine and the Grandes; 6. Precarious Victories: The Entry of Women Into Engineering Studies In Austria, 1900–1945; 7. Women in Army Research: Ambivalent Careers in Nazi Germany; 8. Mobilizing Woman power: Women, Engineers and the East German State in the Cold War; 9. A Pyrrhic Victory: Greek Women's Conquest of a Profession in Crisis
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-28681-7
- 1-280-15134-X
- 9786610151349
- 0-203-98624-5
- 9780203986240
- OCLC:
- 475942427
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