Coice Outstanding academic book of 1998.
Mary R.S. Creese is an associate at the Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas. After almost thirty years as a reserch chemist, she turned to the subject of women's contributions to scientific work and has published more than 20 articles on early women scientists.
This volume provides much more information about the scientific
work performed by these women and includes more women from that
time period than many other biographical sources...offers a
substantial addition to more comprehensive reference
collections.
*American Reference Books Annual*
Useful as a reference and an encyclopedia...
*Science Books and Films*
It is a reference work, and will be most useful (indeed
indispensable) to persons interested in the history of science and
women's studies. Though costly, the excellent workmanship evident
in its production, its level of scholarship, and the numerous
charts comparing the distributions of authors and papers within
fields and between countries return a wealth of information for the
expense.
*Herpetological Review*
In graceful and occasionally wry prose, Ladies delivers the details
about 680 scientists.
*Kansas Alumni Magazine*
...its scope and uniformly excellent coverage of the scientific
achievements of these women make it indispensable for any scholarly
library. All levels.
*CHOICE*
...the coverage is broad and impresses the reader of how active
women were in nineteenth-century sciences...should take a solid
place on the shelves of academic, public, and special
libraries.
*Reference and User Services Quarterly*
Mary Creese has put together a splendid survey of those pioneering
scientific women that helps to match names and lives with those
women who faced the challenges of society... gives a wonderful
picture of the scientific world from the perspective of these
women...
*Bulletin for the History of Chemistry*
Nevertheless, Mary and Thomas Creese have provided a dense volume
that will be of great value to British and American historians of
science and should be in all academic libraries.
*Isis*
Mary Creese's exceptionally significant study...is a comprehensive
analysis of the development of women's science during the 19th
century in the United States and Britain in various
disciplines...an invaluable resource.
*Taxon*
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