For better or for worse? : collaborative couples in the sciences / Annette Lykknes, Donald L. Opitz, Brigitte Van Tiggelen, editors.
In this volume, a distinguished set of international scholars examine the nature of collaboration between life partners in the sciences, with particular attention to the ways in which personal and professional dynamics can foster or inhibit scientific practice. Breaking from traditional gender analy...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Basel ; New York :
Birkhäuser,
[2012]
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| Series: | Science networks historical studies ;
v. 44. |
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks Table of contents Publisher description |
| Summary: | In this volume, a distinguished set of international scholars examine the nature of collaboration between life partners in the sciences, with particular attention to the ways in which personal and professional dynamics can foster or inhibit scientific practice. Breaking from traditional gender analyses which focus on divisions of labor and the assignment of credit, the studies scrutinize collaboration as a variable process between partners living in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who were married and divorced, heterosexual and homosexual, aristocratic and working-class and politically right and left. The contributors analyze cases shaped by their particular geographical locations, ranging from retreat settings like the English countryside and Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to university laboratories and urban¡centers in Berlin, Stockholm, Geneva and London. The volume demonstrates how the terms and meanings of collaboration, variably shaped by disciplinary imperatives, cultural mores, and the agency of the collaborators themselves, illuminate critical intellectual and institutional developments in the modern sciences. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3034802854 9783034802857 3034807503 9783034807500 128080288X 9781280802881 3034802862 9783034802864 |