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For Better or For Worse? Collaborative Couples in the Sciences
In this volume, a distinguished set of international scholars examine the nature of collaboration between life partners in the sciences, with particular attention to the ways in which personal and professional dynamics can foster or inhibit scientific practice. Breaking from traditional gender analy...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2012. |
| Colección: | Science Networks. Historical Studies,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword, by S.G. Kohlstedt - 1. Introduction
- 2. The Making of a Bestseller: Alexander and Jane Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry, by J.-J. Dreifuss and N.T. Sigrist. - 3. 'Not merely wifely devotion': Collaborating in the Construction of Science at Terling Place, by D.L. Opitz. - 4. The Mystery of the Nobel Laureate and His Vanishing Wife, by J. Harvey. - 5. Married for Science, Divorced for Love: Success and Failure in the Collaboration between Astrid Cleve and Hans von Euler-Chelpin, by K. Espmark and C. Nordlund. - 6. Ida and Walter Noddack through Better and Worse: An Arbeitsgemeinschaft in Chemistry, by B. Van Tiggelen and A. Lykknes. - 7. A Model Collaborative Couple in Genetics: Anna Rachel Whiting and Phineas Westcott Whiting's Study of Sex Determination in Habrobracon, by M.L. Richmond. - 8. Social Reform Collaboration and Gendered Academization: Three Swedish Social Science Couples at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, by P. Wisselgren. - 9. Social Science Couples in Britain at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Gender Divisions in Work and Marriage, by E.J. Yeo. - 10. Co-operative Comradeships versus Same-Sex Partnerships: Historicizing Collaboration among Homosexual Couples in the Sciences, by D.L. Opitz - Epilogue: Collaborative Couples - Past, Present and Future, by N.G. Slack. - Select Bibliography
- Contributor Biographies
- Index.