Science on the Home Front

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSISBN: 9780252076596

American Women Scientists in World War II

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By Jordynn Jack
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Introduction; 1. Women Psychologists Forecast Opportunity; 2. Women Anthropologists Study Japanese Internment; 3. Women Physicists on the Manhattan Project; 4. Women Nutritionists on the National Research Council; Conclusion; Bibliography

''Jordynn Jack is the first to tell in splendid detail what opportunities existed during World War II for scientific women, what they accomplished, and what barriers remained. No other books are comparable to this excellent text.'' Londa Schiebinger, author of Nature's Body: Gender In The Making Of Modern Science

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