Format:
1 online resource (310 pages)
ISBN:
9780203986240
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Ser v.12
Content:
Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of the patterns of employment and education of women in this field. Most studies are either policy papers or limited to statistical analyses. Moreover, the scant historical research so far available emphasizes the individual, single and unique character of those women working in engineering, often using anecdotal evidence but ignoring larger issues like the patterns of the labour market and educational institutions. Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges offers answers to the question why women engineers have required special permits to pass through the male guarded gates of engineering and examines how they have managed this. It explores the differences and similarities between women engineers in nine countries from a gender point of view. Through case studies the book considers the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion of women engineers.
Content:
Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Foreword: Musings About The Woman Engineer As Muse -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges: Comparing The History of Women Engineers, 1870s-1990s -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Multiple-Entry Visas: Gender and Engineering in the US, 1870-1945 -- Bridges of Sisterhood: Shaky at Best -- Surrogate Sons and the Family Job -- School Culture and the Strategy of Overqualification -- Foot Soldiers of Bureaucracy -- Facing Male Professionalism -- Divide and Conquer -- Organizing at Last -- 'Woman Power' and Daughters of Martha -- Notes -- 2. 'Am I a Lady or an Engineer?' The Origins of the Women's Engineering Society In Britain, 1918-1940 -- Notes -- 3. Educating Men: Women and the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, 1880-1930 -- Previous Studies -- An Education For A New Elite -- Women's Employment and the Engineering Profession -- Gendered Repertoires of Knowledge -- Masculine Fields of Technology -- A Gendered Pedagogy -- Homo-social Culture and the Creation of Community -- Women in a Men's World -- Moving in from the Margins as 'outsiders inside' -- Notes -- 4. A Woman's Challenge: The Petersburg Polytechnic Institute for Women, 1905-1918 -- The Male World of Engineering: Industry as a Niche for Women -- Women Struggles for Education: Opening a Gate for Women to Engineering -- From Drawing School to the Petersburg Polytechnic Institute for Women -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- 5. Maintaining the Walls: Women Engineers at the École Polytechnique Féminine and the Grandes -- Defining the Engineering World -- nch Higher Engineering Education ... -- Improving Society and Building a Community: Women Organize -- Breaking Boundaries: Women Enter the Traditional 'Grandes Écoles'52.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789058230683
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Crossing boundaries, building bridges Amsterdam [u.a.] : Harwood Academic Publ., 2000 ISBN 9058230686
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9058230694
Additional Edition:
Print version Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges : Comparing the History of Women Engineers, 1870s-1980s
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
,
Natural Sciences
Keywords:
Frau
;
Beruf
;
Ingenieurin
;
Geschichte 1870-1990
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Author information:
Zachmann, Karin 1956-
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