Searching for scientific womanpower : technocratic feminism and the politics of national security, 1940-1980 /
"This compelling history traces contemporary feminist interest in science to the World War II and early Cold War years. During a period when anxiety about America's supply of scientific personnel ran high and when open support for women's rights generated suspicion, feminist reformers...
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Gender & American culture.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Puaca, Laura Micheletti, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Searching for scientific womanpower : |b technocratic feminism and the politics of national security, 1940-1980 / |c Laura Micheletti Puaca. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Chapel Hill : |b The University of North Carolina Press, |c [2014] | |
| 264 | 2 | |a [Getzville, New York] : |b William S. Hein & Company, |c [2017] | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (xiii, 261 pages) : |b illustrations. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-247) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- The war of "trained brains" -- Endless frontiers for scientific womanpower -- Scientific womanpower enters the Sputnik era -- Science and the second wave -- Epilogue. | |
| 520 | |a "This compelling history traces contemporary feminist interest in science to the World War II and early Cold War years. During a period when anxiety about America's supply of scientific personnel ran high and when open support for women's rights generated suspicion, feminist reformers routinely invoked national security rhetoric and scientific "manpower" concerns in their efforts to advance women's education and employment. Puaca brings to light the untold story of an important but largely overlooked strand of feminist activism. This book reveals much about the history of American feminism, the politics of national security, and the complicated relationship between the two"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on PDF title page, viewed January 14, 2018. | ||
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