Feminine ingenuity : women and invention in America

Title
  1. Feminine ingenuity : women and invention in America / Anne L. Macdonald.
Published by
  1. New York : Ballantine Books, 1992.
Author
  1. Macdonald, Anne L., 1920-

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Description
  1. xxiv, 514 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
  1. Celebrates the achievements of women inventors from the first patent issued in 1809 to the Nobel Prize Laureate in 1991.
Subject
  1. Women inventors > United States
  2. Inventions > United States
  3. Inventions
  4. Women inventors
  5. Inventrices
  6. Inventrices > États-Unis
  7. Inventions > États-Unis
  8. inventors
  9. Inventions
  10. Women inventors
  11. Erfinderin
  12. Geschichte (1790-1990)
  13. United States
  14. USA
  15. Inventions United States
  16. Women inventors United States
  17. technologie
  18. technology
  19. vs
  20. usa
  21. positie van de vrouw
  22. woman's status
  23. vrouwen
  24. women
  25. feminisme
  26. feminism
  27. uitvindingen
  28. wetenschap
  29. science
  30. vrouw en samenleving
  31. woman and society
  32. vrouwenbeweging
  33. women's movement
  34. Gender and Science
  35. Gender en wetenschap
Contents
  1. 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
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-491) and index.