A Lab of One’s Own, Science and Suffrage in the First World War by Fara, Patricia -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover page Halftitle page Praise for A Lab of One’s Own Title page Copyright page Dedication page Acknowledgements Contents List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Epigraph Part I. Preserving the Past, Facing the Future

1. Snapshots: Suffrage and Science at Cambridge 2. A Divided Nation: Class, Gender, and Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

Facing a Common Enemy Women and Difference The Impact of War Commemorating the War

3. Subjects of Science: Biological Justifications of Women’s Status

Darwinian Differences Physiological Predestination For Better or for Worse

Part II. Abandoning Domesticity, Working for the Vote

4. A New Century: Voting for Science

Being Modern Demanding the Vote

5. Factories of Science: Women Work for War

Women at War Women Join the Scientific Workforce Difficulties and Dangers Unequal Treatment

6. Ray Costelloe/Strachey: The Life of a Mathematical Suffragist

Becoming a Strachey Internal Warfare Working for Women

Part III. Corridors of Science, Crucibles of Power

7. Scientists in Petticoats: Women and Science before the War

Hidden Heritage United We Stand

8. A Scientific State: Technological Warfare in the Early Twentieth Century

Scientific Battles Government Machines of War

9. Taking Over: Women, Science, and Power During the War

Life Changes Changing Places

10. Chemical Campaigners: Ida Smedley and Martha Whiteley

Ida Smedley (1877–1944) Martha Whiteley (1866–1956) The Forty Years War at the Chemical Society

Part IV. Scientific Warfare, Wartime Welfare

11. Soldiers of Science: Scientific Women Fighting on the Home Front

Deciphering Secrets Domestic Warriors

12. Scientists in Khaki: Mona Geddes and Helen Gwynne-Vaughan

Alexandra Mary Chalmers-Watson (aka Mona Geddes) (1872–1936) Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (née Helen Fraser) (1879–1967)

13. Medical Recruits: Scientists Care for the Nation

Scientific Medicine Professional Growth Medical Women and Female Doctors

14. From Scotland to Sebastopol: The Wartime Work of Dr Isabel Emslie Hutton

An Edinburgh Doctor Salonika Serbia and Sebastopol Married Love

Part V. Citizens of Science in a Post-War World

15. Interwar Normalities: Scientific Women and Struggles for Equality

Women and Society Women and Science

16. Lessons of Science: Learning from the Past to Improve the Future

Endnotes

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16

Bibliography Picture Credits Index

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