Driggers Glamour and Geology

Women in Petroleum Geology and Popular Culture
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-64525-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 267 Seiten

Reihe: Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

During the twentieth century, especially during World War II, female geologists were potrayed as having a glamourous and unique job.  Newspapers, the oil industry, and other publications published stories about the glamorous working geologist, comparing them to movie stars and scientists working on the important production of oil.  This book explores the image of the female geologist as it changed from the “accomplished” woman of the Victorian era to the professional, and glamourous geologists of World War II and beyond.  Women working in geology, especially petroleum geology, embraced the image and some participated in its promotion.  In those same newspaper articles, some geologists began to speak out and ultimately discuss some of the problems they experienced while working in the field and in industry.  This book discusses the role of working women geologists not only in the profession, but as a part of popular culture in the twentieth century.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Driggers, E. Allen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Imagination and History.- Chapter 2. Augusta Thekla Hasslock Kemp:  Woman of “Accomplishment” and the Pre-Glamour Geologist.- Chapter 3. “Women Will Win” Geology and Careers for Women in the World Wars.- Chapter 4. World War II Glamour: The Image of the Female Geologist, and the Newspaper Pin-up.- Chapter 5. Microscopes and the Post-War:  “Women at Work”.- Chapter 6. The Pressure of Doing it All:  “Glamour Girls,” Imagination, and Identity In Post-War Petroleum Industries.- Chapter 7. “Mobilogue:” Women, the Office, and the Oil Industry:  Women’s Changing Place in the Office.- Chapter 8. Identities, Politics, and Culture in Flux:  Bodily Autonomy, Political Rights, the ERA, and Breaking from Established Narratives.- Chapter 9. Resistance, Discrimination, and the New Glamour.- Chapter 10. Glamour Returns:  Images, Heroics, Dolls, But Far From An Ending.

Über Autor(innen)

E. Allen Driggers is an associate professor of history at Tennessee Technological University.  The last nine years or so have been a wild ride, but have produced the best of circumstances, such as his wife Dr. Laura Elizabeth Smith.  He has published one book about the history and chemistry of urinary stones at the turn of the nineteenth century entitled .  He as published scholarly articles in , , , and .  With his co-author Laura Elizabeth Smith, he has published articles on the nature of race and the history of science in publications like , and .  He is an affiliated researcher with The Whiteside Museum of Natural History in Seymore, Texas.  Driggers is excited for his next trip to explore Texas! He is working on two new book length projects on the history of medicine and scientific societies in India and a history of the chemistry of inflammation.  He lives with his wife Laura, their daughter Millie, two dogs, and one cat in the former capital of the state of Tennessee:  Sparta.