A lab of one's own : science and suffrage in the first World War / (Record no. 1885)
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| fixed length control field | 01514nam a2200133Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780198794981 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 940.30820 |
| Item number | FARA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Fara, Patricia |
| 245 #2 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A lab of one's own : science and suffrage in the first World War / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Patricia Fara |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Name of publisher | Oxford University Press, |
| Year of publication | 2018. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xiii, 334 pages : |
| Other physical details | illustrations ; |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | <br/>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. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Transit Campus | Transit Campus | Fiction | 26/10/2021 | 940.30820 FARA | 004569 | 26/10/2021 | Books |