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Book SynopsisA critical assay of the rhetorical and cultural obstacles faced by women scientists
Trade Review"Recommended."--Choice
"Jack does an excellent job of expanding notions of genre, arguing that scientific genres not only regulated gender norms and determined access to knowledge and expertise, they also decided who could speak within the academy and whose work was considered valuable."--
Rhetoric & Public Affairs"Jordynn Jack is the first to tell in splendid detail what opportunities existed during World War II for scientific women, what they accomplished, and what barriers remained. No other books are comparable to this excellent text."--Londa Schiebinger, author of
Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science"Jack has worked insightfully through a wide variety of documents that have been less studied, and she introduces important women psychologists, anthropologists, physicists, and nutritionists whose stories have been neglected. A stimulating and compelling work about gender and genre in science."--Ann B. Shteir, coeditor of
Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Women Psychologists Forecast Opportunity 13
2. Women Anthropologists Study Japanese Internment 40
3. Women Physicists on the Manhattan Project 71
4. Women Nutritionists on the National Research Council 99
Conclusion: Regendering Scientific Cultures 127
Notes 139
Bibliography 145
Index 159
