A lab of one's own : science and suffrage in the first World War / Patricia Fara.
Fara, Patricia, author.
2018
Q130 .F365 2018 (Mapit)
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Title A lab of one's own : science and suffrage in the first World War / Patricia Fara.
Author Fara, Patricia, author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780198794981 (hardcover)
0198794983 (hardcover)
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Language English
Description xiii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Call Number Q130 .F365 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.3082/0941
Summary 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 domains such as engineering and medicine. Profiles include mental health pioneer Isabel Emslie, chemist and co-inventor of tear gas Martha Whiteley, Scottish army doctor Mona Geddes, and botanist Helen Gwynne Vaughan. Though suffragist Millicent Fawcett declared triumphantly that "the war revolutionized the industrial position of women. It found them serfs, and left them free," the truth was very different. Although women had helped the country to victory and won the vote for those over thirty, they had lost the battle for equality. Men returning from the Front reclaimed their jobs, and conventional hierarchies were re-established. Fara examines how these pioneers, temporarily allowed into an exclusive world before the door slammed shut again, paved the way for today's women scientists.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-321) and index.
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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.

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