{"product_id":"science-on-the-home-front-9780252076596","title":"Science on the Home Front","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA critical assay of the rhetorical and cultural obstacles faced by women scientists\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eRhetoric \u0026amp; Public Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eNature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eFiguring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments   ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction   1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Women Psychologists Forecast Opportunity   13\u003cbr\u003e 2. Women Anthropologists Study Japanese Internment   40\u003cbr\u003e 3. Women Physicists on the Manhattan Project   71\u003cbr\u003e 4. Women Nutritionists on the National Research Council   99\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Regendering Scientific Cultures   127\u003cbr\u003e Notes   139\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography   145\u003cbr\u003e Index   159\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036842819927,"sku":"9780252076596","price":23.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252076596.jpg?v=1750932726","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/science-on-the-home-front-9780252076596","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}