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Smitten by Giraffe - My Life as a Citizen Scientist (Paperback)
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Smitten by Giraffe - My Life as a Citizen Scientist (Paperback)
Series: Footprints Series
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When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was
smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvellous
animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off
alone to Africa to study the behaviour of giraffe in the wild.
Subsequently, Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey would be driven by a
similar devotion to study the behaviour of wild apes. In Smitten by
Giraffe the noted feminist reflects on her scientific work as well
as the leading role she has played in numerous activist campaigns.
On returning home to Canada, Anne married physicist Ian Dagg, had
three children, published a number of scientific papers, taught at
several local universities, and in 1967 earned her PhD in biology
at the University of Waterloo. Dagg was continually frustrated in
her efforts to secure a position as a tenured professor despite her
many publications and exemplary teaching record. Finally she opted
instead to pursue her research as an independent "citizen
scientist," while working part-time as an academic advisor. Dagg
would spend many years fighting against the marginalization of
women in the arts and sciences. Boldly documenting widespread
sexism in universities while also discussing Dagg's involvement
with important zoological topics such as homosexuality,
infanticide, sociobiology, and taxonomy, Smitten by Giraffe offers
an inside perspective on the workings of scientific research and
debate, the history of academia, and the rise of second-wave
feminism. A new preface relates Dagg's experience as the subject of
the documentary The Woman Who Loves Giraffes.
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