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Women scientists in America: before affirmative action, 1940-1972

Margaret W. Rossiter 1995 © The Johns Hopkins University Press
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ISBN(s)
  • 9780801857119 (paper)
  • 9780801848933 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Women's Studies
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page vii)
  • List of Tables (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xiii)
  • Introduction (page xv)
  • I. World War II: Opportunity Lost? (page 1)
  • 2. Postwar "Adjustment": Displacement and Demotion (page 27)
  • 3. "Scientific Womanpower": Ambivalent Encouragement (page 50)
  • 4. Graduate School: Record Numbers Despite It All (page 69)
  • 5. Growth, Segregation, and Statistically "Other" (page 95)
  • 6. Faculty at Major Universities: The Antinepotism Rules and the Grateful Few (page 122)
  • 7. Resentful Research Associates: Marriage and Marginality (page 149)
  • 8. Protecting Home Economics, the Women's Field (page 165)
  • 9. Surviving in "Siberia" (page 186)
  • I0. Majors, Money, and Men at the Women's Colleges (page 206)
  • II. Nonprofit Institutions and Self-Employment: A Second Chance (page 235)
  • I2. Corporate Employment: Research and Customer Service (page 256)
  • I3. Governmental "Showcase"? (page 277)
  • I4. Invisibility and Underrecognition: Less and Less of More and More (page 304)
  • I5. Women's Clubs and Prizes: Partial Palliatives (page 333)
  • I6. The Path to Liberation: Consciousness Raised, Legislation Enacted (page 361)
  • List of Abbreviations (page 383)
  • Notes (page 387)
  • Bibliographical Essay (page 531)
  • Index (page 557)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
COND 100.2 (May 1998): 410-411 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1370296
AHR 102.3 (June 1997): 920-921 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2171691
JAH 83.2 (Sep. 1996): 683-684 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2945068
SC 271.5257 (Mar. 1996): 1814-1815 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2889360
WRB 13.9 (June 1996): 14-15 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4022383
ColT 45.1 (Winter 1997): 36-39 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27558817
ACAD 83.3 (May-June 1997): 89-90 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40251105
ISIS 87.3 (Sep. 1996): 574-576 http://www.jstor.org/stable/236049
HSNS 43.3 (June 2013): 371-380 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525
NWSA 12.3 (Autumn 2000): 203-208 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4316773
TC 38.1 (Jan. 1997): 214-231 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3106789
BHM 74.1 (Spring 2000): 203-205 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/v074/74.1more.html
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