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The Invention of Women

Author : Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0816624410

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The Invention of Women by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí Pdf

The author traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. THE INVENTION OF WOMEN demonstrates that biology as a rationale for organizing the social world is a Western construction not applicable in Yoruban culture where social organization was determined by relative age.

Inventing Women

Author : Gill Kirkup,Laurie Smith Keller
Publisher : Polity
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745609783

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Inventing Women by Gill Kirkup,Laurie Smith Keller Pdf

Inventing Women explores important and controversial debates about the gendering of science and technology and their relationship to women. This book discusses how such gendering occurs, the scientific basis for claims of sex difference, the medicalization of women's bodies and the political issues raised by reproductive technology. The book also examines women as producers of science and technology, both as professional scientists and as unskilled workers. It concludes by looking at women as consumers of technology and science - domestic technology and computers - and at their relationship with Nature. Inventing Women raises the question of whether feminism can produce not only a critique of science and technology, but a new feminist science and technology, and the systems and artefacts that go with it. This volume includes contributions which represent some of the best feminist scholarship in their fields. It can be used as a textbook and it will appeal to a wide audience in feminism and women's studies, sociology, education, science and technology, and medicine and health.

Women Invent!

Author : Susan Casey
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781569765111

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Uses short biographies of women inventors around the world to demonstrate how inventions come about.

Women of Invention

Author : Charlotte Montague
Publisher : Chartwell Books
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780785835004

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Women of Invention by Charlotte Montague Pdf

Hypatia was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who invented the hydrometer in about 400 AD. Described as a charismatic teacher, she was seen as an evil symbol of the pagan science of learning and she was eventually murdered by Christian zealots. For many women in years gone by, the invention process was fraught with danger and difficulty. Not only did they face the hardship and obstacles of inventing, they also had to contend with the sexism and gender discrimination of a male world that believed women had nothing to contribute. Scientific women came to the fore with momentous innovations which were impossible for men to ignore. During World War Two, Austrian actress Hedy Lamarr became a pioneer in wireless communications, developing a “Secret Communications System.” More recently, 20-year-old Ann Makosinski has invented the ingenious Hollow Flashlight which converts radiant body heat into electricity. Meanwhile other women continued inventing in the domestic sphere with Miracle Mops, long-lasting lipsticks, and magic knickers. In every walk of twenty-first century life women have been challenging themselves (and men) to shape the way we live. Some of the incredible innovators featured include Myra Juliet Farrell, Sally Fox, Rosalind Franklin, Helen Murray, Anna Pavlova, Mária Telkes, Giuliana Tesoro, Halldis Aalvik Thune, Ann Tsukamoto, Margaret A. Wilcox, Ada Lovelace, and many more. The 150 remarkable women in this book show all too clearly that not only can invention no longer be described as a male dominated domain but that a woman’s inspiration and ingenuity will probably be driving the life-changing ideas of tomorrow’s world.

Girls & Young Women Inventing

Author : Frances A. Karnes,Suzanne M. Bean
Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Children as inventors
ISBN : 091579389X

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Girls & Young Women Inventing by Frances A. Karnes,Suzanne M. Bean Pdf

Examines twenty young female inventors and their creations, from Jennifer Donabar and her electric lock to Jeanie Low and her kiddie stool.

Mothers of Invention

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807855731

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Mothers of Invention by Drew Gilpin Faust Pdf

Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South.

Inventing Black Women

Author : Ajuan Maria Mance
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015070731024

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Inventing Black Women by Ajuan Maria Mance Pdf

"Inventing black women fills important gaps in our understanding of how African American women poets have resisted those conventional notions of gender and race that limit the visibility of Black female subjects. The first historical and thematic survey of African American women's poetry, this book examines the key developments that have shaped the growing body of poems by and about Black women since the end of slavery and Reconstruction, as it offers incisive readings of individual works by important poets such as Alice B. Neal, Maggie Pogue Johnson, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Sonia Sanchez, Lucille Clifton, and Audre Lorde, as well as many others."--BOOK JACKET.

Feminine Ingenuity

Author : Anne L. MacDonald
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015031773859

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Feminine Ingenuity by Anne L. MacDonald Pdf

Celebrates the achievements of women inventors from the first patent issued in 1809 to the Nobel Prize Laureate in 1991.

Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry

Author : Paula R. Backscheider
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801895906

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Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry by Paula R. Backscheider Pdf

“Our sense of eighteenth-century poetic territory is immeasurably expanded by [this] excellent historical and cultural” study of UK women poets of the era (Cynthia Wall, Studies in English Literature). This major work offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions. Rather than presenting a chronological survey, Paula R. Backscheider explores the forms in which women wrote and the uses to which they put those forms. Considering more than forty women in relation to canonical male writers of the same era, she concludes that women wrote in all of the genres that men did but often adapted, revised, and even created new poetic kinds from traditional forms. Backscheider demonstrates that knowledge of these women’s poetry is necessary for an accurate and nuanced literary history. Within chapters on important verse forms, she sheds light on such topics as women’s use of religious poetry to express ideas about patriarchy and rape; the important role of friendship poetry; same-sex desire in elegy by women as well as by men; and the status of Charlotte Smith as a key figure of the long eighteenth century, not only as a Romantic-era poet. Co-Winner, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association

When Women Invented Television

Author : Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062973337

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New and Noteworthy —New York Times Book Review Must-Read Book of March —Entertainment Weekly Best Books of March —HelloGiggles “Leaps at the throat of television history and takes down the patriarchy with its fervent, inspired prose. When Women Invented Television offers proof that what we watch is a reflection of who we are as a people.” —Nathalia Holt, New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia Jennifer Keishin Armstrong tells the little-known story of four trailblazing women in the early days of television who laid the foundation of the industry we know today. It was the Golden Age of Radio and powerful men were making millions in advertising dollars reaching thousands of listeners every day. When television arrived, few radio moguls were interested in the upstart industry and its tiny production budgets, and expensive television sets were out of reach for most families. But four women—each an independent visionary— saw an opportunity and carved their own paths, and in so doing invented the way we watch tv today. Irna Phillips turned real-life tragedy into daytime serials featuring female dominated casts. Gertrude Berg turned her radio show into a Jewish family comedy that spawned a play, a musical, an advice column, a line of house dresses, and other products. Hazel Scott, already a renowned musician, was the first African American to host a national evening variety program. Betty White became a daytime talk show fan favorite and one of the first women to produce, write, and star in her own show. Together, their stories chronicle a forgotten chapter in the history of television and popular culture. But as the medium became more popular—and lucrative—in the wake of World War II, the House Un-American Activities Committee arose to threaten entertainers, blacklisting many as communist sympathizers. As politics, sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and money collided, the women who invented television found themselves fighting from the margins, as men took control. But these women were true survivors who never gave up—and thus their legacies remain with us in our television-dominated era. It's time we reclaimed their forgotten histories and the work they did to pioneer the medium that now rules our lives. This amazing and heartbreaking history, illustrated with photos, tells it all for the first time.

Inventing a Better Mousetrap

Author : Alan Rothschild,Ann Rothschild
Publisher : Maker Media, Inc.
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781457187148

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Inventing a Better Mousetrap by Alan Rothschild,Ann Rothschild Pdf

Learn about the role that patent models played in American history--and even learn to build your own replica! Patent models, working models required for US patent filings from 1790 to 1880, offer insight into--and inspiration from--a period of intense technological advancement, the Industrial Revolution. The Rothschild Patent Model Collection consists of thousands of patent models, many from the 19th century. This book features the most outstanding of these patent models, and offers deep insight into the cultural, economic, and political history of the United States. This book not only catalogs hundreds of the most compelling models from the collection, but shows you how to build your own replicas of several selected models using Lego, 3D printing, and other materials and techniques.

Inventing Ideas

Author : B. Zorina Khan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190936099

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What determines why some countries succeed and others fall behind? Economists have long debated the sources of economic growth, resulting in conflicting and often inaccurate claims about the role of the state, knowledge, patented ideas, monopolies, grand innovation prizes, and the nature of disruptive technologies. B. Zorina Khan's Inventing Ideas overturns conventional thinking and meticulously demonstrates how and why the mechanism design of institutions propels advances in the knowledge economy and ultimately shapes the fate of nations. Drawing on the experiences of over 100,000 inventors and innovations from Britain, France, and the United States during the first and second industrial revolutions (1750-1930), Khan's comprehensive empirical analysis provides a definitive micro-foundation for endogenous macroeconomic growth models. This groundbreaking study uses comparative analysis across time and place to show how different institutions affect technological innovation and growth. Khan demonstrates how top-down innovation systems, in which elites, state administrators, or panels make key economic decisions about prizes, rewards and the allocation of resources, prove to be ineffective and unproductive. By contrast, open-access markets in patented ideas increase the scale and scope of creativity, foster diversity and inclusiveness, generate greater knowledge spillovers, and enhance social welfare in the wider population. When institutions are associated with rewards that are misaligned with economic value and productivity, the negative consequences can accumulate and reduce comparative advantage at the level of individuals and nations alike. So who will arise as the global leader of the twenty-first century? The answer depends on the extent to which we learn and implement the lessons from the history of innovation and enterprise.

Inventing Beauty

Author : Teresa Riordan
Publisher : Broadway
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780767914512

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A history of the clothing, gadgets, and other products that were designed to promote female beauty is a tour of such innovations as hoop skirts, cosmetic surgery, face cream, and more, in a volume that also discusses the contributions of social trends and technological innovation. Original.

Inventing Subjects

Author : Himani Bannerji
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Feminist theory
ISBN : 9781843310730

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Articles on the socio-cultural identity of women in West Bengal, India. b)s.

Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition

Author : Christopher M. Flavin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498592734

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Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition by Christopher M. Flavin Pdf

Christopher M. Flavin examines the ways in which late classical medieval women’s writings serve as a means of emphasizing both faith and social identity within a distinctly Christian, and later Catholic, tradition, which remains a major part of the understanding of faith and the self. Flavin focuses on key texts from the lives of desert saints and the Passio Perpetua to the autobiographies of Counter-Reformation women like Teresa of Ávila to illustrate the connections between the self and the divine.