Crossing boundaries, building bridges comparing the history of women engineers, 1870s-1990s / edited by Annie Canel, Ruth Oldenziel, and Karin Zachmann.

Other author Canel, Annie.
Other author Oldenziel, Ruth, 1958-
Other author Zachmann, Karin.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge,
Descriptionxix, 290 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Women engineers--History. --19th century.
Women engineers--History. --20th century.
Women in engineering--History. --19th century.
Women in engineering--History. --20th century.
Women engineers--Social conditions.

SeriesStudies in the history of science, technology and medicine ; v. 12
Contents Foreword: Musings about the woman engineer as muse / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: Crossing boundaries, building bridges : comparing the history of women engineers, 1970s-1990s / Ruth Oldenziel, Annie Canel, and Karin Zachmann -- Multiple-entry visas : gender and engineering in the US, 1870-1945 / Ruth Oldenziel -- 'Am I a lady or an engineer?' : the origins of the Women's Engineering Society in Britain, 1918-1940 / Carroll Pursell -- Educating men : women and the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, 1880-1930 / Boel Berner -- A woman's challenge : the Petersburg Polytechnic Institute for Women, 1908-1918 / Dmitri Gouzévitch and Irina Gouzévitch -- Maintaining the walls : women engineers at the École Polytechnique Féminine and the Grandes Écoles in France / Annie Canel -- Precarious victories : the entry of women into engineering studies in Austria, 1900-1945 / Juliane Mikoletzky -- Women in Army research : ambivalent careers in Nazi Germany / Annette Vogt -- Mobilizing womanpower : women, engineers and the East German state in the Cold War / Karin Zachmann -- A pyrrhic victory : Greek women's conquest of a profession in crisis, 1923-1996 / Konstantinos Chatzis and Efthymios Nicolaïdis -- Epilogue: Women engineers in western Germany : will we ever be taken for granted? / Moniko Greif.
General noteOriginally published in 2000 by Harwood Academic.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2003271685
ISBN9058230694
ISBN9058230686

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