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200 1. $a A lab of one's own $b Texte imprimé $e science and suffrage in the first World War $f Patricia Fara
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214 .0 $a Oxford $c Oxford university press
214 .4 $d C 2018
215 .. $a 1 vol. (XIII-334 p.) $c ill. $d 23 cm
300 .. $a Bibliogr. p. 287-321. Index
330 .. $a Female scientists, doctors, and engineers experienced independence and responsibility
during the First World War. Suffragists including Virginia Woolf's sister, Ray Strachey,
aligned themselves with scientific and technological progress, and mobilized women
to enter conventionally male domains such as engineering and medicine. Profiles include
mental health pioneer Isabel Emslie, chemist and co-inventor of tear gas Martha Whiteley,
Scottish army doctor Mona Geddes, and botanist Helen Gwynne Vaughan. Though suffragist
Millicent Fawcett declared triumphantly that "the war revolutionized the industrial
position of women. It found them serfs, and left them free," the truth was very different.
Although women had helped the country to victory and won the vote for those over thirty,
they had lost the battle for equality. Men returning from the Front reclaimed their
jobs, and conventional hierarchies were re-established. Fara examines how these pioneers,
temporarily allowed into an exclusive world before the door slammed shut again, paved
the way for today's women scientists
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