Fara, Patricia (Author)
Oxford University Press
Physical Details: 304 pages
Language: English
Patricia Fara unearths the forgotten suffragists of World War I who bravely changed women's roles in the war and paved the way for today's female scientists.Many extraordinary female scientists, doctors, and engineers tasted independence and responsibility for the first time during the First World War. How did this happen? Patricia Fara reveals how suffragists including Virginia Woolf's sister, Ray Strachey, had already aligned themselves with scientific and technological progress, and that during the dark years of war they mobilized women to enter conventionally male domains such as science and medicine. Fara tells the stories of women including mental health pioneer Isabel Emslie, chemist Martha Whiteley, a co-inventor of tear gas, and botanist Helen Gwynne Vaughan. Women were carrying out vital research in many aspects of science, but could it last?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 the bravery of these pioneers, temporarily allowed into a closed world before the door slammed shut again, paved the way for today's women scientists.
...MoreReview Connie Hendrickson (2019) Review of "A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War". Bulletin for the History of Chemistry (pp. 149-149).
Review Claire Brock (2019) Review of "A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War". American Historical Review (pp. 1959-1960).
Essay Review Naomi Pasachoff (2019) An uneven introduction to (too) many forgotten women scientists, studded with many interesting (if not necessarily on-topic) facts. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 105-110).
Review Amy Sue Bix (2019) Review of "A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 171-173).
Review Katie Baca (2019) Review of "A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War". Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza (pp. 729-731).
Review Marsha L. Richmond (2019) Review of "A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 189-190).
Review Marsha L. Richmond (2019) Review of "A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 189-190).
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