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Science on the Home Front - American Women Scientists in World War II (Hardcover)
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Science on the Home Front - American Women Scientists in World War II (Hardcover)
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During World War II, women scientists responded to urgent calls for
their participation in the war effort. Even though newspapers,
magazines, books, and films forecasted tremendous growth in
scientific and technical jobs for women, the war produced few
long-term gains in the percentage of women in the sciences or in
their overall professional standing. In Science on the Home Front,
Jordynn Jack argues that it was the very language of science--the
discourses and genres of scientific communication--that helped to
limit women's progress in science even as it provided opportunities
for a small group of prominent female scientists to advance during
the war. The book uses the experiences of individual women--from
physicists Leona Marshall and Katharine Way, who worked on the
Manhattan Project, to Lydia J. Roberts, who developed the
Recommended Dietary Allowances--to illuminate the broader
limitations of masculine scientific culture and its discourses of
expertise, gender neutrality, technical expediency, and
objectivity. Focusing on genres of women scientists' writing in the
disciplines of psychology, anthropology, physics, and nutrition,
the study identifies key characteristics of scientific culture and
rhetoric that continue to limit women's advancement in science and
to stifle their unique perspectives.
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