Women Becoming Mathematicians: Creating a Professional Identity in Post-World War II America - Couverture rigide

Murray, Margaret A. M.

 
9780262133692: Women Becoming Mathematicians: Creating a Professional Identity in Post-World War II America
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ISBN 10 : 0262133695 ISBN 13 : 9780262133692
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2000

Synopsis

Women mathematicians of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s and how they built professional identities in the face of social and institutional obstacles.

Women Becoming Mathematicians looks at the lives and careers of thirty-six of the approximately two hundred women who earned Ph.D.s in mathematics from American institutions from 1940 to 1959. During this period, American mathematical research enjoyed an unprecedented expansion, fueled by the technological successes of World War II and the postwar boom in federal funding for education in the basic sciences. Yet women's share of doctorates earned in mathematics in the United States reached an all-time low. This book explores the complex interplay between the personal and professional lives of those women who embarked on mathematical careers during this period, with a view to understanding how changes in American society during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s affected their career development and identities as mathematicians. The book is based on extensive interviews with thirty-six women mathematicians of the postwar generation, as well as primary and secondary historical and sociological research. Taking a life-course approach, the book examines the development of mathematical identity across the life span, from childhood through adulthood and into retirement. It focuses on the process by which women who are actively involved in the mathematical community come to "know themselves" as mathematicians. The women's stories are instructive precisely because they do not conform to a set pattern; compelled to improvise, the women mathematicians of the 1940s and 1950s followed diverse paths in their struggle to construct a professional identity in postwar America.

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À propos de l'auteur

Margaret A. M. Murray, formerly Professor of Mathematics at Virginia Tech, is Lecturer in Rhetoric and Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at the University of Iowa.

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Éditeur
The MIT Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262133695
ISBN 13 
9780262133692
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
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ISBN 10 :  0262632462 ISBN 13 :  9780262632461
Editeur : MIT Press, 2001
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