TY - BOOK ID - 32836300 TI - A lab of one's own : Science and suffrage in the first World War PY - 2018 SN - 9780198794981 0198794983 9780198794998 0198794991 0192514172 0192514164 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - 378.4-055.2 KW - 001.891-051 KW - 001.891-051 Wetenschappelijke onderzoekers KW - Wetenschappelijke onderzoekers KW - 378.4-055.2 Universiteiten--?-055.2 KW - Universiteiten--?-055.2 KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - United Kingdom KW - Women in science KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Women KW - Science KW - History KW - Suffrage KW - 378.4-055.2 Universiteiten--Gender. Vrouwen-055.2 KW - Universiteiten--Gender. Vrouwen-055.2 KW - Women in science - History - 20th century KW - World War, 1914-1918 - Science KW - Women - Suffrage - History KW - Science - History - 20th century KW - Gender KW - Social class KW - Women's suffrage KW - Academic sector KW - Book KW - First World War UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32836300 AB - Female scientists, doctors, and engineers experienced independence and responsibility during the First World War. Suffragists including Virginia Woolf's sister, Ray Strachey, aligned themselves with scientific and technological progress, and mobilized women to enter conventionally male domains such as engineering and medicine. Profiles include mental health pioneer Isabel Emslie, chemist and co-inventor of tear gas Martha Whiteley, Scottish army doctor Mona Geddes, and botanist Helen Gwynne Vaughan. Though suffragist Millicent Fawcett declared triumphantly that "the war revolutionized the industrial position of women. It found them serfs, and left them free," the truth was very different. Although women had helped the country to victory and won the vote for those over thirty, they had lost the battle for equality. Men returning from the Front reclaimed their jobs, and conventional hierarchies were re-established. Fara examines how these pioneers, temporarily allowed into an exclusive world before the door slammed shut again, paved the way for today's women scientists. ER -