The Role of Women in the History of Geology: Special Publication no 281 (Geological Society Special Publication) - Hardcover

C. V. Burek

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1862392277 ISBN 13: 9781862392274

Publisher: Geological Society of London, 2007

Synopsis

Where were the women in Geology? This book is a first as it unravels the diverse roles women have played in the history and development of geology as a science predominantly in the UK, Ireland and Australia, and selectively in Germany, Russia and US. The volume covers the period from the late eighteenth century to the present day and shows how the roles that women have played changed with time. These included illustrators, museum collectors and curators, educationalists, researchers and geologists. Originally as wives, sisters or mothers many were assistants to their male relatives. This book looks at all these forgotten women and for the first time historians and scientists together explore the contribution they made to this male-dominated subject. There are individual profiles on remarkable women: Catherine Raisin, Dorothea Bate, Cuviers daughters, Grace Prestwich, Annie Greenly, Nancy Kirk, Margaret Crosfield, Ethel Skeat, Maria Ogivlie Gordon, Marie Stopes, Anne Phillips, Muriel Arber and Etheldred Bennett. Pulling together this extensive research uncovered common issues and generated emergent themes. The Editors have brought this new research together under these themes and tried to answer the question Where were the women in Geology? They go on to discuss how these role models can be applicable to today's society.

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Review:

Thanks to the work of editors C.V. Burek and B. Higgs and the authors of the essays in this remarkable collection, we can now appreciate the roles in this history not only of Mary Anning but also of Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Margaret Benson, Eliza Maris Gordon Cumming, Sophie Duvaucel, Catherine Raisin, Marty Rosse, Gertrude Elles, Ethel Woods, Margaret Crosfield, Marie Stopes, Ethelred Bennett, Grace Anne Milne, Anne Phillips, Agnes Arber, Dorothea Bate, Maria Matilda Ogilvie Gordon, and Annie Greenly. The result is a compelling anthology that will at long last allow interested scholars to examine the contributions of women to the development of geology as a science...For the reader motivated to understand not only the role of women in the history of science in general, but their role in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century geology in particular, The Role of Women in the History of Geology is most welcome. --Jill Schneiderman Review was featured in ISIS, Vol 100 No. 2 June 2009

This book is the 281st Special Publication of the Geological Society and has been produced to the usual high standard.

With few other resources available, the book will provide a useful reference for teachers/lecturers of the history of geology, science and social history in general. However, the definitive book remains to be written. --Melise Harland - Review featured in The Journal of the Geological Magazine vol 147/1 - 2010-05-26

About this edition

• Publisher: Geological Society of London
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1862392277
• ISBN 13: 9781862392274
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: C. V. Burek, B. Higgs