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A Lab of One's Own : Science and Suffrage in the First Wold War
Female scientists, doctors, and engineers experienced independence and responsibility during the First World War. Suffragists including Virginia Woolf's sister, Ray Strachey, aligned themselves with scientific and technological progress, and mobilized women to enter conventionally male domai...
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Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford University Press
2018
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Preserving the past, facing the future. Snapshots : suffrage and science at Cambridge
- A divided nation : class, gender, and science in early twentieth-century Britain
- Subjects of science : biological justifications of women's status
- Part II. Abandoning domesticity, working for the vote. A new century : voting for science
- Factories of science : women work for war
- Ray Costelloe/Strachey : the life of a mathematical suffragist
- Part III. Corridors of science, crucibles of power. Scientists in petticoats : women and science before the war
- A scientific state : technological warfare in the early twentieth century
- Taking over : women, science, and power during the war
- Chemical campaigners : Ida Smedley and Martha Whiteley
- Part IV. Scientific warfare, wartime welfare. Soldiers of science : scientific women fighting on the home front
- Scientists in Khaki : Mona Geddes and Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
- Medical recruits : scientists care for the nation
- From Scotland to Sebastopol : the wartime work of Dr. Isabel Emslie Hutton
- Part V. Citizens of science in a post-war world. Interwar normalities : scientific women and struggles for equality
- Lessons of science : learning from the past to improve the future.