Ruth Schwartz COWAN's Books

Ruth Schwartz Cowan demonstrates that technological change is neither sudden, nor discontinuous, but is linked to social developments that determine the tools that are invented and the ways in which they are used.

A Social History of American Technology, Second Edition, tells the story of American technology from the tools used by its earliest inhabitants to the technological systems--cars and computers, aircraft and antibiotics--that we are familiar with today. Ruth Schwartz Cowan and Matthew H. Hersch demonstrate how technological change has always been closely related to social and economic development, and examine the important mutual relationships between social history and technological change. They explain how the unique characteristics of American cultures and American geography have affected the technologies that have been invented, manufactured, and used throughout the years--and also the reverse: how those technologies have affected the daily lives, the unique cultures, and the environments of all Americans.

An account of how Eastern European Jewish immigrants moved from the old world into the new, grappling with an American lifestyle whilst trying to retain their traditional identity. Interviews with American Jews and the Cowan's use of oral narrative convey the Jewish experience of American culture.

Neither minimizing the difficulty of the choices that modern genetics has created for us nor fearing them, Cowan argues that we can improve the quality of our own lives and the lives of our children by using the modern science and technology of genetic screening responsibly.

Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of women in this field. This book considers the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion of them.

The first book of its kind to provide a full and comprehensive historical grounding of the contemporary issues of gender and women in science. Women in Science includes a detailed survey of the history behind the popular subject and engages the reader with a theoretical and informed understanding with significant issues like science and race, gender and technology and masculinity. It moves beyond the historical work on women and science by avoiding focusing on individual women scientists.

First paperback edition of this classic, cross-cultural history of women and their relationship to music through the centuries.

A pioneering study of the relations between gender and technology.

In a disturbing behind-the-scenes history of the early achievements of Margaret Sanger's American birth control movement, Carole R. McCann scrutinizes the movement's compromises as well as its successes.

An account, based on interviews, of the experiences of East European Jewish immigrants and of their children (born between 1895-1915), emphasizing the traumas of antisemitism in Eastern Europe and of the demands of assimilation in the USA. Ch. 1 (pp. 3-38), "Dangerous Just to Be: Life in the Old Country, " discusses relations with Gentile neighbors and servants and the dangers of pogroms and attacks by antisemitic ruffians. Also mentions attacks on Jewish children in immigrant quarters in the U.S. and antisemitism in the school system.

Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of the patterns of employment and education of women in this field. Most studies are either policy papers or limited to statistical analyses. Moreover, the scant historical research so far available emphasizes the individual, single and unique character of those women working in engineering, often using anecdotal evidence but ignoring larger issues like the patterns of the labour market and educational institutions. Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges offers answers to the question why women engineers have required special permits to pass through the male guarded gates of engineering and examines how they have managed this. It explores the differences and similarities between women engineers in nine countries from a gender point of view. Through case studies the book considers the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion of women engineers.

Book's by Ruth Schwartz COWAN

A Social History of American Technology

A Social History of American Technology

A Social History of American Technology

A Social History of American Technology

Our Parents' Lives

Our Parents' Lives

Heredity and Hope

Heredity and Hope

Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges

Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges

Women in Science

Women in Science

Music and Women

Music and Women

Making Technology Masculine

Making Technology Masculine

Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945

Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945

Our Parents Lives

Our Parents Lives

Heredity and Hope

Heredity and Hope

Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges

Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges

Our Parents' Lives

Our Parents' Lives

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