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Crossing boundaries, building bridges: Comparing the history of women engineers, 1870s--1990s (2000)

Canel, Annie (Editor)
Oldenziel, Ruth (Editor)
Zachmann, Karin (Editor)

Harwood Academic Publishers

Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: 308 pp., illus., index
Language: English

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Engineering Women in science Science and gender Technical education 20th century 19th century United States Sweden Austria Greece Great Britain France Germany Women's Engineering Society

Description Contents: Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Foreword: Musings about the woman engineer as muse; Ruth Oldenziel, Annie Canel, Karin Zachmann, Introduction: Crossing boundaries, building bridges: Comparing the history of women engineers, 1870s-1990s; Ruth Oldenziel, Multiple-entry visas: Gender and engineering in the US, 1870-1945; Carroll Pursell, “Am I a lady or an engineer?”: The origins of the Women's Engineering Society in Britain, 1918-1940; Boel Berner, Educating men: Women and the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, 1880-1930; Dmitri Gouzévitch, Irina Gouzévitch, A woman's challenge: The Petersburg Polytechnic Institute for Women, 1905-1918; Annie Canel, Maintaining the walls: Women engineers at the École Polytechnique Féminine and the Grandes Écoles in France; Juliane Mikoletzky, Precarious victories: The entry of women into engineering studies in Austria, 1900-1945; Annette Vogt, Women in army research: Ambivalent careers in Nazi Germany; Karin Zachmann, Mobilizing womanpower: Women, engineers, and the East German state in the Cold War; Konstantinos Chatzis, Efthymios Nicolaïdis, A pyrrhic victory: Greek women's conquest of a profession in crisis, 1923-1996; Moniko Greif, Epilogue: Women engineers in western Germany: Will we ever be taken for granted?

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Review Ochs, Kathleen (2002) Review of "Crossing boundaries, building bridges: Comparing the history of women engineers, 1870s--1990s". Technology and Culture (p. 175). unapi

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