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Crossing boundaries, building bridges : comparing the history of women engineers, 1870s-1990s /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Harwood Academic,
©2000.
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| Colección: | Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ;
v. 12. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword : musings about the woman engineer as muse / Ruth Schwartz Cowan
- Introduction : Crossing boundaries, building bridges : comparing the history of women engineers, 1870s-1990s / Ruth Oldenziel, Annie Canel, and Karin Zachmann
- Multiple-entry visas: gender and engineering in the US, 1870-1945 / Ruth Oldenziel
- "Am I a lady or an engineer?" : the origins of the Women's Engineering Society in Britain, 1918-1940 / Carroll Pursell
- Educating men : women and the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, 1880-1930 / Boel Berner
- A woman's challenge : the Petersburg Polytechnic Institute for Women, 1905-1918 / Dmitri Gouzévitch and Irina Gouzévitch
- Maintaining the walls : women engineers at the École Polytechnique Féminine and the Grandes Écoles in France / Annie Canel
- Precarious victories : the entry of women into engineering studies in Austria, 1900-1945 / Juliane Mikoletzky
- Women in army research : ambivalent careers in Nazi Germany / Annette Vogt
- Mobilizing womanpower : women, engineers, and the East German state in the Cold War / Karin Zachmann
- A pyrrhic victory : Greek women's conquest of a profession in crisis, 1923-1996 / Konstantinos Chatzis and Efthymios Nicolaïdis
- Epilogue : Women engineers in western Germany : Will we ever be taken for granted? / Moniko Greif.