Crossing boundaries, building bridges
Subtitle: comparing the history of women engineers, 1870s-1990s
By: edited by Annie Canel, Ruth Oldenziel, and Karin Zachmann.
Contributors: Canel, Annie.; Oldenziel, Ruth, 1958-; Zachmann, Karin.
Series: Studies in the history of science, technology and medicine ;; v. 12
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published in 2000 by Harwood Academic.
Table of contents: value: Foreword: Musings about the woman engineer as muse / Ruth Schwartz Cowan; value: Notes on contributors; value: Introduction: Crossing boundaries, building bridges : comparing the history of women engineers, 1970s-1990s / Ruth Oldenziel, Annie Canel, and Karin Zachmann; value: Multiple-entry visas : gender and engineering in the US, 1870-1945 / Ruth Oldenziel; value: 'Am I a lady or an engineer?' : the origins of the Women's Engineering Society in Britain, 1918-1940 / Carroll Pursell; value: Educating men : women and the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, 1880-1930 / Boel Berner; value: A woman's challenge : the Petersburg Polytechnic Institute for Women, 1908-1918 / Dmitri Gouzévitch and Irina Gouzévitch; value: Maintaining the walls : women engineers at the École Polytechnique Féminine and the Grandes Écoles in France / Annie Canel; value: Precarious victories : the entry of women into engineering studies in Austria, 1900-1945 / Juliane Mikoletzky; value: Women in Army research : ambivalent careers in Nazi Germany / Annette Vogt; value: Mobilizing womanpower : women, engineers and the East German state in the Cold War / Karin Zachmann; value: A pyrrhic victory : Greek women's conquest of a profession in crisis, 1923-1996 / Konstantinos Chatzis and Efthymios Nicolaïdis; value: Epilogue: Women engineers in western Germany : will we ever be taken for granted? / Moniko Greif.