Women of Science: Righting the Record

ISBN 10: 0253332648 / ISBN 13: 9780253332646

Published by Indiana University Press, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women of Science: Righting the Record
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253332648
• ISBN 13: 9780253332646
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Essays discuss the accomplishments of women in astronomy, archaeology, biology, chemistry, crystallography, engineering, geology, mathematics, medicine, and physics

From the Back Cover

In the late 1960s, when the current women's movement was beginning to gain its first real momentum, academic women, long subjected to institutionalized subordination, became suddenly and acutely aware of their own inferior status--not only in the hierarchy of academic employment, but also in the hierarchy of recognized intellectual achievement.