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

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Amsterdam : Harwood Academic, 2000.

Description:

xix, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Studies in the history of science, technology and medicine ; no. 12

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword : musings about the woman engineer as muse / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- Introduction : Crossing boundaries, building bridges : comparing the history of women engineers, 1870s-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, 1905-1918 / 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.

ISBN:

9058230694 (pbk.)
9789058230690
9058230686
9789058230683

Subject:

Women in engineering History 20th century.
Women engineers Social conditions History.
Women in engineering History 19th century.
Femmes en ingénierie Histoire 20e siècle.
Ingénieures Conditions sociales.
Femmes en ingénierie Histoire 19e siècle.
Women in engineering.
Ingenieurs.
Vrouwen.
Women engineers.
Women in engineering History.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Oldenziel, Ruth.
Zachmann, Karin.
Canel, Annie.
Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; no. 12.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 219528
Call No.: TA157 .C7 2000
Status: Available

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