Science on the home front
Subtitle: American women scientists in World War II
By: Jordynn Jack.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780252034701; 9780252076596
Subjects: Women in science -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Women scientists -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Feminism and science -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Sex discrimination in science -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Women psychologists forecast opportunity; value: Women anthropologists study Japanese internment; value: Women physicists on the Manhattan Project; value: Women nutritionists on the National Research Council.