A Lab of One's Own —— Science and Suffrage in the First World War

----- 一个人的实验室：第一次世界大战中的科学与投票

ISBN: 9780198794981 出版年：2018 页码：351 Fara, Patricia Oxford University Press

The philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once remarked that life is understood backwards and lived forwards. For me, the point of doing history is to examine how the past has led to the present and hence to improve the future. In writing A Lab of One’s Own (2018) I retrieved the neglected narratives of several scientific women from the early twentieth century, suggesting how their lives and experiences have affected the position of women in science today. The following three extracts, taken from the first, penultimate, and final chapters, discuss the main themes underlying the more detailed presentations of particular women that form the body of the book.