Engendering Engineering: An Intellectual, Institutional, and Social History of Women's Engineering Education in the US

项目摘要ses # 0217330“性别化工程：美国女性工程教育的知识、制度和社会历史”艾米·比克斯，爱荷华州立大学这个项目追溯了从19世纪到20世纪80年代美国女性技术培训的历史，重点关注将工程学从男性定义的领域转变为目前这种永久性的男女同校学科的力量。Bix展示了一系列的案例研究，展示了大学是如何实现工程男女同校的，不同院校的管理人员和教师在不同时期是如何处理吸引和整合女性的实际问题和社会问题的。这项工作进一步考察了工科女学生本身的历史，在20世纪初、第二次世界大战和冷战期间不断变化的机会和障碍的影响下，观察她们的态度和行动。最后，对近几十年事件的分析讨论了支持团体的作用，如女性工程师协会，以及女性在男性化的工程世界中控制自己未来的方式。这项研究代表了科学、技术和社会的多学科方法，将工程学和专业化的历史与美国历史、教育、妇女研究和政策等问题结合起来。迄今为止，还没有关于女性工程教育如何发展的全面描述。Bix的作品以这样的系统分析为基础，解决了关于技术和性别的基本问题。这本关于女性工程教育的书有望在学术领域引起广泛的兴趣。对于技术历史学家来说，这项工作应该为当前对美国工程的理解增加新的维度。它也应该引起美国历史、妇女研究、社会学和教育学学生的极大兴趣。最后，这本书应该有一个及时的呼吁更广泛的读者，包括女性工程师和男性和女性工程教育工作者本身，谁已经表示有兴趣更好地了解过去的事件是如何连接到正在进行的辩论，妇女在工程和工程教育今天的位置。

Project AbstractSES # 0217330"Engendering Engineering: An Intellectual, Institutional, and SocialHistory of Women's Engineering Education in the U.S."Amy Bix, Iowa State UniversityThis project traces the history of technical training for women in the United States from the 1800s through 1980s, concentrating on forces which transformed engineering from a male-defined field to its current status as a permanently yet tensely co-educational discipline. Bix presents a series of case studies showing how colleges approached engineering coeducation, how administrators and faculty in different institutions atdifferent times dealt with both practical problems and social questions about attracting and integrating women. This work further examines the history of female engineering students themselves, looking at their attitudes and actions in light of changing opportunities and obstacles during the early twentieth-century, World War II, and the Cold War. Finally, analysis of events during recent decades discusses the role of support groups such as the Society of Women Engineers and the ways in which women worked to gain control over their own future in the masculine world of engineering. This research represents a multidisciplinary approach to science, technology and society, combining history of engineering and professionalization with issues in U.S. history, education, women's studies, and policy. To date, there is no comprehensive account of how women's engineering education developed. Bix's work builds toward such systematic analysis, addressing fundamental questions about technology and gender.This book on the engineering education of women promises to attract widespread interest across scholarly disciplines. For historians of technology, this work should add new dimensions to current understanding of American engineering. It should also carry significant interest for students of American history, women's studies, sociology, and education. Finally, this book should have a timely appeal to a broader audience, including female engineers and male and female engineering educators themselves, who have already expressed interest in better understanding how events of the past connect to ongoing debates about the place of women in engineering and in engineering education today.