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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dagg, Anne Innis, author.

Series:

Footprints (Cheltenham, England) ; 22.

Footprints ; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women scientists--Canada--Biography.

Women scientists.

Women zoologists--Canada--Biography.

Women zoologists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, [Ontario] : 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 marvellous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behaviour of giraffe in the wild. Subsequently, Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey would be driven by a similar devotion to study the behaviour 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 tenured professor despite her many publications and exemplary 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.Boldly documenting widespread sexism in 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 academia, and the rise of second-wave feminism. A new preface relates Dagg’s experience as the subject of the documentary The Woman Who Loves Giraffes.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Illustrations

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

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 14, 2017).

ISBN:

9780773599758

0773599754

9780773599741

0773599746