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Scarcer than Hen's Teeth, or Hidden in Misnomerland?
This question is being asked by Autumn Stanley, whose 1116-page book on
'Mothers and Daughters of Invention: notes for a revised history of technology'
came out in 1993 (Scarecrow Press), then in paperback (Rutgers, 1995).
She is preparing a book tentatively called
'Invention on the distaff side: British Women Inventors'
being considered for the Univ. of Edinburgh's new series on women in S&T.
Please let Autumn Stanley know of any papers on women and girls'
contributions to technology, invention and patents; also barriers to
women's technical careers and remedies therefor, gender difference in
approaches to technology/inventive output...
from prehistory, antiquity, early modern times (e.g. insights from the
guilds) to the present day
Please send queries, abstracts or papers, with a 1- or 2-paragraph CV to:
Autumn Stanley autumn_dave@compuserve com
Trillium House
241 Bonita, Los Trancos Woods
Portola Valley, CA 94028-8103, USA
Note the breadth of her field: thus Karen Sparck-Jones's seminal
contributions on linguistic information processing in computational systems
(now being applied on the web) are described in some detail in 'Mothers and
Daughters..."
Thanks
JM
Dr Joan Mason, 12 Hills Avenue, Cambridge CB1 7XA
tel +44 1223 247827 fax +44 1223 740775
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