Ebook {Epub PDF} A Lab of Ones Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War by Patricia Fara

 · Reviews. It has perhaps become cliché to talk of women being hidden from history, but as Patricia Fara’s timely and engrossing history of women scientists in the First World War demonstrates, there are still women whose lives and work are largely forgotten. In A Lab of One’s Own, Fara seeks to reveal the impact of this conflict on women scientists, with particular emphasis on how this history Author: Anna Muggeridge. A Lab of One's Own, by Patricia Fara, is an in-depth exploration of the intersection of women's suffrage and scientific ambition in England up to and during WWI. As I finished the book, I reflected on the immense obstacles that the women of history overcame in order to hold their own in academia, the research laboratory, and the operating room/5(41). A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War: Author: Patricia Fara: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN: , Length: 5/5(1).

Patricia Fara 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 () and her prize-winning book, Science: A Four Thousand Year History (OUP, ), has been translated into nine languages. In addition to many academic publications, her popular works include Newton: The. "A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War" by Patricia Fara, published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, This is an extremely important book, which, I think, should be required reading for all school pupils because women are still a long way from being treated as equals in our society. A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War. Patricia Fara. Oxford University Press. Find this book: A Lab of One's Own is a great title for an important book. Many women scientists opposed Virginia Woolf's separation of women's and men's creativity as presented in her essay, 'A Room of One's Own'.

marked a double centenary: peace was declared in war-wracked Europe, and women won the vote after decades of struggle. A Lab of One's Own 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. A lab of one’s own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War by Patricia Fara, British author, lecturer at world-renowned ancient Cambridge University, television personality. A history of science, centered on twentieth century women and their achievements. A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War is published by Oxford.