Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges
Subtitle: Comparing the History of Women Engineers, 1870s-1990s (Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, V. 12)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9789058230690
Subjects: Engineering: general; History of science; Women's studies; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Sociology; History; Technology; Women's Studies - History; Science/Mathematics; Women in engineering; Social Aspects; Science-History; Technology / Engineering / Civil; Technology-Social Aspects; Engineering - General; 19th century; Women engineers
First sentence: In 1978, almost hundred years after the first woman had graduated from Iowa State University's engineering program, Samuel Florman wondered in Harper's magazine why women failed to take the same existential pleasure in engineering that he advocated for men.