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9780252034701 Academic Inspection Copy

Science on the Home Front

American Women Scientists in World War II
  • ISBN-13: 9780252034701
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Jordynn Jack
  • Price: AUD $239.00
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  • Local release date: 16/03/2009
  • Format: Hardback 184 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Sociology [JHB]
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During World War II, women scientists responded to urgent calls for their participation in the war effort. However, the war produced few long-term gains in the percentage of women in the sciences or in their overall professional standing. In this book, Jordynn Jack argues that it was the very language of science--the discourses and genres of scientific communication--that helped to limit women's progress in science even as it provided opportunities for a small group of prominent female scientists to advance during the war. The book illuminates the broader limitations of masculine scientific culture and its discourses of expertise, gender neutrality, technical expediency, and objectivity. The study identifies key characteristics of scientific culture and rhetoric that continue to limit women's advancement in science and to stifle their unique perspectives.
Introduction; 1. Women Psychologists Forecast Opportunity; 2. Women Anthropologists Study Japanese Internment; 3. Women Physicists on the Manhattan Project; 4. Women Nutritionists on the National Research Council; Conclusion; Bibliography
''Jordynn Jack is the first to tell in splendid detail what opportunities existed during World War II for scientific women, what they accomplished, and what barriers remained. No other books are comparable to this excellent text.'' Londa Schiebinger, author of Nature's Body: Gender In The Making Of Modern Science
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