Defining Women's Scientific Enterprise
Subtitle: Mount Holyoke Faculty and the Rise of American Science
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: March 31, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781584655541
Subjects: Higher & further education; History of science; Women's studies; Women's Studies - History; Social Science; Sociology; Northeastern & North Atlantic states; Higher; History; Social Science / Women's Studies; Reference; Women's Studies - General
First sentence: Mary Lyon founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts, to "do something for women teachers" that would help them find steady, well-paying work in respectable posts where they could change the world lor the better.