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; Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine -- v. 12
Publisher: Harwood Academic
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Women engineers -- Social conditions; Women in engineering -- History -- 19th century; Women in engineering -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Foreword : musings about the woman engineer as muse / Ruth Schwartz Cowan; title: Introduction : Crossing boundaries, building bridges : comparing the history of women engineers, 1870s-1990s / Ruth Oldenziel, Annie Canel, and Karin Zachmann; title: Multiple-entry visas: gender and engineering in the US, 1870-1945 / Ruth Oldenziel; title: "Am I a lady or an engineer?" : the origins of the Women's Engineering Society in Britain, 1918-1940 / Carroll Pursell; title: Educating men : women and the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, 1880-1930 / Boel Berner; title: A woman's challenge : the Petersburg Polytechnic Institute for Women, 1905-1918 / Dmitri Gouzévitch and Irina Gouzévitch; title: Maintaining the walls : women engineers at the École Polytechnique Féminine and the Grandes Écoles in France / Annie Canel; title: Precarious victories : the entry of women into engineering studies in Austria, 1900-1945 / Juliane Mikoletzky; title: Women in army research : ambivalent careers in Nazi Germany / Annette Vogt; title: Mobilizing womanpower : women, engineers, and the East German state in the Cold War / Karin Zachmann; title: A pyrrhic victory : Greek women's conquest of a profession in crisis, 1923-1996 / Konstantinos Chatzis and Efthymios Nicolaïdis; title: Epilogue : Women engineers in western Germany : Will we ever be taken for granted? / Moniko Greif