Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979 - Lives of Women in Science

Publisher Marketing: Focuses on 19th and 20th century American and European women scientists. Great introduction by the editors of essays written by 12 women historians. References, notes and a decent index helps for further reading and wondering when the men of science will wake up and smell the coffee

Contributor Bio:  Outram, Dorinda Dorinda Outram is Clark Professor of History at the University of Rochester. Her previous publications include Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789 1979 (1987) and The Body and the French Revolution: Sex, Class and Political Culture (1989). Contributor Bio:  Rossiter, Margaret W Margaret W. Rossiter is the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science at Cornell University and editor of Isis and Osiris. Her book Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972 is also available from Johns Hopkins.