Feminine ingenuity : women and invention in America
- Title
- Feminine ingenuity : women and invention in America / Anne L. Macdonald.
- Published by
- New York : Ballantine Books, 1992.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xxiv, 514 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Celebrates the achievements of women inventors from the first patent issued in 1809 to the Nobel Prize Laureate in 1991.
- Subject
- Women inventors > United States
- Inventions > United States
- Inventions
- Women inventors
- Inventrices
- Inventrices > États-Unis
- Inventions > États-Unis
- inventors
- Inventions
- Women inventors
- Erfinderin
- Geschichte (1790-1990)
- United States
- USA
- Inventions United States
- Women inventors United States
- technologie
- technology
- vs
- usa
- positie van de vrouw
- woman's status
- vrouwen
- women
- feminisme
- feminism
- uitvindingen
- wetenschap
- science
- vrouw en samenleving
- woman and society
- vrouwenbeweging
- women's movement
- Gender and Science
- Gender en wetenschap
- Contents
- 1. Foremothers of American Invention -- 2. After the War: Inventing Within Woman's Sphere -- 3. New Fields of Invention -- 4. Centennial Sisterhood -- 5. Patenting Dress Reform -- 6. Publicizing, Proselytizing, and Educating: Uplifting the Position of Women Begins -- 7. Inventing Outside and Beyond Woman's Sphere -- 8. Celebrating Women's Ingenuity: Expositions, Fairs, and Patent Office Lists -- 9. Still a Long Way to Go -- 10. Patenting Know-how -- 11. "New Women" in a New Century -- 12. Hope Springs Eternal -- 13. Same Song, Second Verse -- 14. Depression, War, and Peace -- 15. The Modern Woman Inventor -- 16. Patents Pending? -- Appendix: Patents of Women Inventors Cited in Text.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-491) and index.