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Sto caricando le informazioni... Creative Couples in the Sciencesdi Helena M. Pycior (A cura di), Pnina G. Abir-Am (A cura di), Nancy G. Slack (A cura di)
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Can two scientists work and live together? Marie and Pierre Curie proved that it was indeed possible to have a happy marriage and do brilliant research together. This collection of seventeen original essays explores the interplay between marriage and scientific work in the lives of two dozen couples in the nineteenth and twentieth century. It is the first book to discuss the professional and personal lives of scientific couples. For much of this period, marriage was the only acceptable way a woman could gain access to the tools, space, and colleagues indispensable to doing science. Yet, collaboration with her husband could also mean the denial of full credit for her work, inability to move to better jobs, and the juggling of domestic and scientific responsibilities. For the husband, collaboration with his skilled, unpaid wife could bring greater achievements than he might have achieved alone, but also meant the suspicion of his professional peers and the necessity of supporting the household. The creative couples described in this volume range from Nobel Prize winners and world-renowned social scientists to obscure field biologists. The essays describe marriages and scientific collaborations that were a joy to both partners, as well as those that proved disastrous. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley, Barbara J. Becker, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Mildred Cohn, Janet Bell Garber, Christiane Groeben, Joy Harvey, Susan Hoecker-Drysdale, Pamela M. Henson, Maureen J. Julian, Sylvia W. McGrath, Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, John Stachel, Linda Tucker, and Sylvia Wiegand. They provide unique insights into the nature of cross-gender collaboration and intimacy. This volume will be of enormous interest to contemporary scientists, to historians of science, and to anyone interested in the ways women and men share marriage and work. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The works are grouped according to the type of relationship shared by the partners. The first section is devoted to three couples whose professional collaboration resulted in the Nobel Prize. The second section includes the stories of four couples whose relationship began as that of student and teacher. Part Three discusses three mutually supportive couples. Part Four is entitled "Couples Devolving from Creative Potential to Dissonance." The fifth and final section is a comparison of several couples who shared scientific disciplines.
As the focus of the book is on the history of women in science, much space is devoted to the biographies of the female partners. Their education, research interests, and scientific contributions are examined along with those of their (usually better-known) male partners.
I found the book captivating especially because I had not known of most of the subjects before, whether male or female. Their fields ranged from biology to astronomy to sociology. It was interesting to contrast the success of one couple with the failure of another. Some men supported their wives' work, published jointly with them, and helped to equalize the gender roles. Other men did not. Some of the women gave up science entirely after marriage, or acted as skilled assistants to their husbands. Although most of the couples here worked in the late 1800s or early 1900s, a few were active in the mid 1900s, when established norms were beginning to change. It would be fun to have a second volume, containing more recent examples of scientific couples, and comparing their lives to those of the earlier ones. ( )