Feminine Ingenuity
How Women Inventors Changed America
$46.34
- Paperback
540 pages
- Release Date
15 May 1994
Summary
Written with clarity and a lively eye both for detail and for the progress of feminism in the United States. - SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
In this fascinating study of American women inventors, historian Anne Macdonald shows how creative, resourceful, and entrepreneurial women helped to shatter the ancient stereotypes of mechanically inept womanhood. In presenting their stories, Anne Macdonald’s thorough research in patent archives and her engaging use of period magazines, journals, lectu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780345383143 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0345383141 |
| Author: | Anne L. MacDonald |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Ballantine Books Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 540 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 1994 |
| Weight: | 794g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 32mm |
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About The Author
Anne L. MacDonald
Anne L. Macdonald was for fifteen years chairperson of the history department of the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C. She was the author of No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting and Feminine Ingenuity: Women and Invention in America. She died in 2016.
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