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

by Patricia Fara

Book Overview

Patricia Fara unearths the forgotten suffragists of World War I who bravely changed women's roles in the war and paved the way for today's female scientists.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198794983
• ISBN13: 9780198794981
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.6"