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Only work focused specifically on women writers in geology and the "familiar format"
Includes women in England and America - providing the reader with unique viewpoint by considering how the scientific, religious, and educational politics present in these two nations affected the works under consideration
Interdisciplinary focus allows reader to understand how the authors and works under consideration were situated in their greater historical and scientific context
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
Authors and Affiliations
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Geological Sciences, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, USA
Kristine Larsen
About the author
Dr. Kristine Larsen is a Professor in the Geological Sciences Department at Central Connecticut State University, where she has been a faculty member since 1989. Her research and teaching are interdisciplinary in scope and audience, focusing not only on such standard disciplinary topics as astrophysics and general earth science, but issues of science and society and science pedagogy. In particular, two of her main areas of interest are women in the history of science and the impact of science on popular culture (especially the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien). In addition to her standard teaching duties within the department, she has also developed and taught courses for the First Year Experience program, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, and the University Honors Program (for which she served as Director for a decade). She is also the Faculty Coordinator for the Copernican Observatory and Planetarium, through which she engages in a variety of public outreach programs. She has been recognized for her dedication to excellence in outreach and teaching through the CCSU Excellence in Teaching Award, Connecticut Science Center's Petit Family Foundation Women in Science Leadership Award, and Walter Scott Houston award of the North East Region of the Astronomical League, among other honors. She is currently an Assistant Editor for the Astronomical League’s Reflector magazine and serves on the editorial board for Waymeet for Tolkien Teachers Digital Journal and the Journal of Tolkien Research. She is the author of Stephen Hawking: A Biography (which has been translated into four other languages) and Cosmology 101, and co-editor of The Mythological Dimensions of Neil Gaiman (Recipient of the Gold Medal for Science Fiction/Fantasy in the 2012 Florida Publishing Association Award) and The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who. She has contributed chapters to thirty edited volumes and published 50 journal articles, in addition to over 150 other publications.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Women Who Popularized Geology in the 19th Century
Authors: Kristine Larsen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64952-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64951-1Published: 23 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87909-3Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64952-8Published: 12 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 216
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Science, Literary History, Popular Earth Science