{"product_id":"lab-of-ones-own-science-and-suffrage-in-the-first-world-war-paperback","title":"Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatricia Fara\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2018 marked a double centenary: peace was declared in war-wracked Europe, and women won the vote after decades of struggle. \u003cem\u003eA Lab of One's Own\u003c\/em\u003e commemorates both anniversaries by revealing the untold lives of female scientists, doctors, and engineers who undertook endeavours normally reserved for men. It tells fascinating and extraordinary stories featuring initiative, determination, and isolation, set against a backdrop of war, prejudice, and disease.\u003cbr\u003ePatricia Fara investigates the enterprising careers of these pioneering women and their impact on science, medicine, and the First World War. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSuffrage campaigners aligned themselves with scientific and technological progress. Defying protests about their intellectual inferiority and child-bearing responsibilities, during the War they won support by mobilizing women to enter conventionally male domains. \u003cem\u003eA Lab of One's Own\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on the female experts who carried out vital research. They had already shown exceptional resilience by challenging accepted norms to pursue their careers, now they played their part in winning the War at home and overseas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1919, the suffragist Millicent Fawcett declared triumphantly that 'The war revolutionised the industrial position of women. It found them serfs, and left them free.' She was wrong: Women had helped the country to victory, had won the vote for those over thirty - but had lost the battle for equality. \u003cem\u003eA Lab of One''s Own\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading to understand and eliminate the inequalities still affecting professional women today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatricia Fara\u003c\/strong\u003e lectures in the history of science at Cambridge University, where she is a Fellow of Clare College. She is the President of the British Society for the History of Science (2016-18) and her prize-winning book, \u003cem\u003eScience: A Four Thousand Year History\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2009), has been translated into nine languages. In addition to many academic publications, her popular works include Newton: The Making of Genius (Columbia University Press, 2002), An Entertainment for Angels (Icon Books, 2002), \u003cem\u003eSex, Botany and Empire\u003c\/em\u003e (Columbia University Press, 2003), and \u003cem\u003ePandora's Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment\u003c\/em\u003e (Pimlico, 2004). An experienced public lecturer, Patricia Fara appears regularly in TV documentaries and radio programmes such as In our Time. She also contributes articles and reviews to many journals, including \u003cem\u003eHistory Today\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBBC History\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNature\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.4 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45257134997606,"sku":"9780198794998","price":23.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/aFlLRWluOGgxYWgrWnVKNXMxZFFmUT09.webp?v=1773759037","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/lab-of-ones-own-science-and-suffrage-in-the-first-world-war-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}