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The women founders of the social sciences / by Lynn McDonald.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDonald, Lynn.
- Series:
- Women's Experience
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--History.
- Social sciences.
- Social sciences--Methodology--History.
- Women social scientist--History.
- Women social scientist.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (300 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal & Kingston, Canada ; London ; Ithaca, [New York] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ground-breaking and original, this book debunks the myth that empirical social science has been dominated by its male founders and methodologists. The author re-analyses the critical role British, French and American women played in creating the field from the 16th through the early 20th centuries. Included are Mary Astell, Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Martineau, Beatrice Webb, Catharine Macauley, Florence Nightingale, Madame de Staël and Jane Addams.
- Contents:
- The women founders of the social sciences
- Women and the emrgence of empiricism
- From the Enlightenment to the French Revolution
- When as methodologists in the nineteenth century
- Women as missing persons in methodology.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 30, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-9185-0
- OCLC:
- 870652551
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