A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War

TitleA Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2018
AuthorsFara, Patricia
Number of Pages334
PublisherOxford University Press
CityOxford
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Many extraordinary female scientists, doctors, and engineers tasted independence and responsibility for the first time during the First World War. How did this happen? Patricia Fara reveals how suffragists including Virginia Woolf's sister, Ray Strachey, had already aligned themselves with scientific and technological progress, and that during the dark years of war they mobilized women to enter conventionally male domains such as science and medicine...Women were carrying out vital research in many aspects of science, but could it last? 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 the bravery of these pioneers, temporarily allowed into a closed world before the door slammed shut again, paved the way for today's women scientists.

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