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Headstrong:
52 Women Who Changed Science and
World
Breaking into Lab:
Engineering Progress for Women in
Science
v měkké vazbě, 256 stran
vyd. Broadway Books, V/2015
ISBN 9780553446791
v měkké vazbě, 260 stran
vyd. New York University Press,
X/2014
ISBN 9781479809202
katalog.cena cca 550 Kč vč.DPH
v této nabídce 450 Kč vč.DPH
katalog.cena cca 680 Kč vč.DPH
v této nabídce 560 Kč vč.DPH
In 2013, the New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: “She
made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job, and took eight
years off from work to raise three children.” It wasn’t until the second paragraph that
readers discovered why the Times had devoted several hundred words to her life: Brill
was a brilliant rocket scientist who invented a propulsion system to keep
communications satellites in orbit, and had recently been awarded the National Medal
of Technology and Innovation. Among the questions the obituary—and consequent
outcry—prompted were, Who are the role models for today’s female scientists, and
where can we find the stories that cast them in their true light?
Headstrong delivers a powerful, global, and engaging response. Covering Nobel Prize
winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists
who influence our every day, Rachel Swaby’s vibrant profiles span centuries of
courageous thinkers and illustrate how each one’s ideas developed, from their first
moment of scientific engagement through the research and discovery for which they’re
best known. This fascinating tour reveals these 52 women at their best—while
encouraging and inspiring a new generation of girls to put on their lab coats.
Women and Gender in Science and
Technology
v pevné vazbě, 1726 stran
vyd. Routledge, V/2014
ISBN 9780415855600
katal.cena cca 31.800 Kč vč.DPH
v této nabídce 26.070 Kč vč.DPH
The question of gender in science and technology is pursued by scholars from
different disciplines and perspectives: historians study the lives of women scientists
within the context of institutions that for centuries held women at arm's length;
sociologists uncover women's access to the means of scientific production; biologists
scrutinize how science has studied female and male bodies; cultural critics explore
normative understandings of femininity and masculinity; philosophers and historians of
science analyse how gender has influenced the content and methods of science and
technology. Now, this new four-volume collection from Routledge enables users to
make sense of the interlocking pieces of the gender, science, and technology puzzle:
the history of women's participation in science and engineering; the structure of
research institutions; and the gendering of human knowledge. The volumes bring
together important representative publications treating these issues from antiquity to
the present, and across cultures.
Why are there so few women in science? In Breaking into the Lab, Sue Rosser uses the
experiences of successful women scientists and engineers to answer the question of why
elite institutions have so few women scientists and engineers tenured on their faculties.
Women are highly qualified, motivated students, and yet they have drastically higher
rates of attrition, and they are shying away from the fields with the greatest demand for
workers and the biggest economic payoffs, such as engineering, computer sciences, and
the physical sciences. Rosser shows that these continuing trends are not only
disappointing, they are urgent: the U.S.
can no longer afford to lose the talents of the women scientists and engineers, because it
is quickly losing its lead in science and technology. Ultimately, these biases and barriers
may lock women out of the new scientific frontiers of innovation and technology transfer,
resulting in loss of useful inventions and products to society.
Advancing Women in Science
v pevné vazbě, 344 stran
vyd. Springer, IV/2015
ISBN 9783319086286
katalog.cena cca 3.240 Kč vč.DPH
v této nabídce 2.650 Kč vč.DPH
Many countries have implemented policies to increase the number and quality of
scientific researchers as a means to foster innovation and spur economic development
and progress. To that end, grounded in a view of women as a rich, yet underutilized
knowledge and labor resource, a great deal of recent attention has focused on
encouraging women to pursue education and careers in science - even in countries with
longstanding dominant patriarchal regimes. Yet, overall, science remains an area in
which girls and women are persistently disadvantaged.
This book addresses that situation. It bridges the gap between individual- and societallevel perspectives on women in science in a search for systematic solutions to the
challenge of building an inclusive and productive scientific workforce capable of creating
the innovation needed for economic growth and societal wellbeing. This book examines
both the role of gender as an organizing principle of social life and the relative position of
women scientists within national and international labor markets.
Weaving together and engaging research on globalization, the social organization of
science, and gendered societal relations as key social forces, this book addresses critical
issues affecting women's contributions and participation in science.
Science, Gender, and Internationalism:
Women's Academic Networks,
1917-1955
Women Writing Art History in
Nineteenth Century:
Looking Like Woman
v pevné vazbě, 340 stran
vyd. Palgrave Macmillan, VII/2014
ISBN 9781137438881
v pevné vazbě, 249 stran
vyd. Cambridge University Press,
IX/2014
ISBN 9781107075757
katalog.cena cca 2.530 Kč vč.DPH
v této nabídce 2.070 Kč vč.DPH
katalog.cena cca 2.530 Kč vč.DPH
v této nabídce 2.070 Kč vč.DPH
Born out of the optimism of the Paris Peace Conference, the formation of the League
of Nations, and the fight for women's suffrage in Britain and the United States, the
International Federation of University Women was founded in 1919 and consciously
set out to reshape interwar society. In pursuit of sweeping professional and social
change, the IFUW brought together women throughout the world who were
passionately committed to promoting higher education as a means of achieving
international understanding. It launched an international academic women's network to
achieve these objectives, weaving together personal friendships and professional
contacts across national and ideological divisions hardened by the unprecedented
ordeal of global conflict.
By 1930, the IFUW had 24,000 members and had expanded to thirty nations. In this
fascinating transnational study, Christine von Oertzen traces the IFUW's rise in the
international arena and the decline of its scientific internationalism in the Cold War era,
making a valuable contribution to the cultural histories of diplomacy and intellectual
exchange.
Women in Islamic Societies
v pevné vazbě, 130 stran
vyd. Nova Science Publishers,
IV/2015
ISBN 9781634820141
katalog.cena cca 4.200 Kč vč.DPH
v této nabídce 3.450 Kč vč.DPH
Half a billion Muslim women inhabit some 45 Muslim-majority countries, and another
30 or more countries have significant Muslim minorities, including, increasingly,
countries in the developed West. This book provides a literature review of recent
empirical social science scholarship that addresses the actualities of womens lives in
Muslim societies across multiple geographic regions. This book also discusses the
differences in the Sunnis and Shiites in Islam.
This book sets out to correct received accounts of the emergence of art history as a
masculine field. It investigates the importance of female writers from Anna Jameson,
Elizabeth Eastlake and George Eliot to Alice Meynell, Vernon Lee and Michael Field in
developing a discourse of art notable for its complexity and cultural power, its increasing
professionalism and reach, and its integration with other discourses of modernity.
Proposing a more flexible and inclusive model of what constitutes art historical writing,
including fiction, poetry and travel literature, this book offers a radically revisionist account
of the genealogy of a discipline and a profession.
It shows how women experienced forms of professional exclusion that, whilst detrimental
to their careers, could be aesthetically formative; how working from the margins of
established institutional structures gave women the freedom to be audaciously
experimental in their writing about art in ways that resonate with modern readers.
Women Writing and Writing about
Women
v měkké vazbě, 204 stran
vyd. Routledge, III/2014
ISBN 9780415752329
katalog.cena cca 1.270 Kč vč.DPH
v této nabídce 1.040 Kč vč.DPH
This innovative collection of contemporary essays in feminist literary criticism provides a
spectrum of approaches and positions, united by their common focus on writing by and
about women. Spanning the novel, poetry, drama, film and criticism, the contributors
emphasise some of the problems of theory and practice posed by writing as a woman
and by women's representation in literature. The subjects of individual essays range from
the nineteenth and twentieth century novel to avant-garde film, and from Victorian women
poets to Russian women poets of today.
Drawing on disciplines as diverse as structuralism, psychoanalysis, semiotics, sociolinguistics and Marxist analyses of literature, the essays suggest the variety and vigour of
contemporary feminist literary criticism, as well as representing some of the debates
currently animating it. Topics of common concern range from the nature of a women's
tradition in literature to the scope and method of feminist literary criticism itself.
Successfully bridging the gap between literary criticism and literary production, the scope
of this collection will be of considerable interest to those concerned with current
developments in literary criticism as well as to those in the field of women's studies.
Reading Contemporary African
American Literature:
Black Women's Popular Fiction
v pevné vazbě, 140 stran
vyd. Lexington Books, XI/2014
ISBN 9780739188781
katalog.cena cca 1.900 Kč vč.DPH
v této nabídce 1.560 Kč vč.DPH
Reading Contemporary African American Literature focuses on the subject of
contemporary African American popular fiction by women. Bragg's study addresses
why such work should be the subject of scholarly examination, describes the events
and attitudes which account for the critical neglect of this body of work, and models a
critical approach to such narratives that demonstrates the distinctive ways in which this
literature captures the complexities of post-civil rights era black experiences. In making
her arguments regarding the value of popular writing, Bragg argues that black
women's popular fiction foregrounds gender in ways that are frequently missing from
other modes of narrative production.
They exhibit a responsiveness and timeliness to the shifting social terrain which is
reflected in the rapidly shifting styles and themes which characterize popular fiction. In
doing so, they extend the historical function of African American literature by
continuing to engage the black body as a symbol of political meaning in the social
context of the United States. In popular literature Beauty Bragg locates a space from
which black women engage a variety of public discourses.
Women and Creativity
v měkké vazbě, 368 stran
vyd. Karnac Books, IV/2014
ISBN 9781782201458
katalog.cena cca 1.270 Kč vč.DPH
v této nabídce 1.040 Kč vč.DPH
This latest book in the Psychoanalysis and Women series includes writings from
practising psychoanalysts mainly from Italy and Europe. They take a wide sweep in
exploring many aspects of women's creativity with an emphasis throughout the
chapters on the contribution of dreaming to creativity. It takes as its starting point
creativity in clinical work in the consulting room, and puts forward new perspectives on
psychoanalytic theory.
The focus then turns to creativity in the life cycle, particularly when there are delays
and difficulties in becoming pregnant, as well as the everyday creativity in overcoming
obstacles to intimacy and coupling and being able to allow the female body in
particular to be receptive to growing and nurturing an infant human being. It turns next
to aspects of female creativity in the arts in the broadest sense, discussing artworks
and sculpture, film and literature. Lastly, it considers aspects of creative living in
society, the large, small and unseen creativity in culture, society and the structures that
we live with.
This book is dedicated to the memory of Mariam Alizade, who, as the second Chair of
the International Psychoanalytical Association's Committee on Women and
Psychoanalysis (COWAP), lived with such creativity.
Routledge Introduction to
American Women Writers
v měkké vazbě, 224 stran
vyd. Routledge, I/2016
ISBN 9781138016248
katalog.cena cca 1.060 Kč vč.DPH
v této nabídce 870 Kč vč.DPH
The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers considers the key literary,
historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts of American women authors from the
seventeenth century to the present, and provides students with an analysis of the most
up-to-date literary trends and debates in women s literature. This accessible and
engaging guide covers a variety of essential topics such as:
The origins of American women s writing
The colonial period and the Puritans
The early national period and the rhetoric of independence
The 19th Century and the Civil War period
The 20th Century, including Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
The 21st Century and the future of American women s writing
Feminism, sexuality, regionalism, domesticity, ethnicity, and multiculturalism.
The volume examines the ways in which both canonical and lesser known women writers
from diverse class and cultural backgrounds have shaped American literary traditions,
addressing key contemporary and theoretical debates, and giving particular attention to
the ways writers worked both inside, outside, and around the strictures of their cultural
and historical moments to create a space for women's voices and experiences as a vital
part of American life.
Material Cultures of
Early Modern Women's Writing
v pevné vazbě, 232 stran
vyd. Palgrave Macmillan, XI/2014
ISBN 9781137342423
katalog.cena cca 2.310 Kč vč DPH
v této nabídce 1.890 Kč vč.DPH
This collection examines the diverse material cultures through which early modern
women's writing was produced, transmitted, and received, focusing on the ways it was
originally packaged and promoted, how it circulated in its contemporary contexts, and
how it was read and received in its original publication and in later revisions and
redactions. In doing so, Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing offers an
account of the ways in which cultural mediation shapes our interpretations of early
modern women's texts. The collection draws upon recent concepts of publication as
'event' - multiple, choral and occurring across different modes and times - in order to
expand our conception of who early modern women writers were, how they wrote and
circulated their texts, and how the reception of their work over time determines who and
what is read now.
Collectively, the essays in this book challenge not only how we read, analyse and value
early modern women's writing, but also our understanding of the production,
transmission, and reception of early modern literature more broadly.