Book ID: CBB001320099

Creating Complicated Lives: Women and Science at English-Canadian Universities, 1880--1980 (2012)

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Ainley, Marianne (Marika) Gosztonyi (Author)
Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey W. (Editor)
Rayner-Canham, Marelene F. (Editor)


McGill-Queen's University Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xi + 200 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Why have Canadian women scientists been written out of the historical record? Who were they? What did they accomplish? What were their life paths? These are some of the questions answered in this authoritative work. Over decades of research, Marianne Ainley identified, tracked down, and interviewed surviving scientists. Creating Complicated Lives weaves the lives and work of these pioneers with the author's own experiences as an immigrant scientific technician and later a feminist historian. Ainley argues that we must look at the lives of women scientists through a new historical lens that takes into account both the advances of science and concurrent debates about the advancement of women. Rather than having linear career trajectories, many women shifted fields, coped with discrimination, and endeavoured to find niches in which they could make significant contributions.

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Authors & Contributors
Molinari, Véronique
Jeremy J. D. Greenwood
James Parry
Goodman, Martin
Wooten, Heather Green
Wittje, Roland
Concepts
Science education and teaching
Women in science
Universities and colleges
Science and gender
Biographies
Societies; institutions; academies
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
20th century, late
Places
England
United States
Canada
Toronto (Ontario)
London (England)
Sweden
Institutions
British Ornithologists' Union (BOU)
National Society of Black Physicists (United States)
University of Toronto
University of Texas
Oxford University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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