Umfang: | vii, 310 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm |
Inhalt: | Machine generated contents note:Celebration of the centenary of the first female Fellows: introduction /B. M. Higgs --Female medal and fund recipients of the Geological Society of London: a historical perspective /C.V. Burek --Margaret Chorley Crosfield, FGS: the very first female Fellow of the Geological Society /C.V. Burek --Ladies with hammers -- exploring a social paradox in early nineteenth-century Britain /M. Kolbl-Ebert --Collecting women in geology: opening the international case of a Scottish `cabinetiere', Eliza Gordon Cumming (c. 1798 -- 1842) /M. Orr --Female aristocrats in the natural history world before the establishment of the Geological Society of London /J. Porter --Scientists, collectors and illustrators: the roles of women in the Palaeontographical Society /P.R. Crowther --Maria Graham and the Chilean earthquake of 1822: contextualizing the first female-authored article in Transactions of the Geological Society /C. Thompson --Female students of geology in Victorian Dublin /S. Hegarty --Mabel Elizabeth Tomlinson and Isabel Ellie Knaggs: two overlooked early female Fellows of the Geological Society /C.V. Burek --Gertrude Elles: the pioneering graptolite geologist in a woolly hat. Her career, achievements and personal reflections from her family and colleagues /C.V. Burek --Eileen Mary Lind Hendriks (1887 -- 1978), whose meticulous research resolved the Paleozoic stratigraphy and structure of SW England /J.A. Bennett --Two for the price of one: Doris Livesey Reynolds (1899 -- 1985) /C. L. E. Lewis --Dr Dorothy Helen Rayner FGS (1912 -- 2003): vertebrate palaeontologist and academic /P. J. Boylan --A pioneering geophysicist: Rosemary Hutton /A. G. Jones --Understanding the Earth: the contribution of Marie Tharp /B. M. Higgs --Buried discoveries of early female petroleum geologists /R. P. Gries --Women at the dawn of diamond discovery in Siberia or how two women discovered the Siberian diamond province /R. N. Yuzmukhametov --Far-flung female (and fossil bone hunting) Fellows: an autoethnographical approach /S. Turner. The Geological Society of London was founded in 1807. At the time, membership was restricted to men, many of whom became well-known names in the history of the geological sciences. On the 21 May 1919, the first female Fellows were elected to the Society, 112 years after its formation. This text celebrates the centenary of that important event. In doing so it presents the often untold stories of pioneering women geoscientists from across the world who navigated male-dominated academia and learned societies, experienced the harsh realities of Siberian field-exploration, or responded to the strategic necessity of the 'petroleum girls' in early American oil exploration and production. It uncovers important female role models in the history of science, and investigates why not all of these women received due recognition from their contemporaries and peers |
