A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War Toys & Games from women serving as nurses

from women serving as nurses both at home and on the frontlines

As she wrote in one of her letters

Each nation used widows and war dead as symbols to either uphold their victory or disengage from their defeat

written with passion

Richard Rubin set out to see if he could still find and talk to someone who had actually served in the American Expeditionary Forces during that colossal conflict

A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War Toys & Games from women serving as nursesDescription by Patricia Fara Paperback Many extraordinary female scientists, doctors, and engineers tasted independence and responsibility for the first time during the First World War. How did this happen? Patricia Fara reveals how suffragists including Virginia Woolf's sister, Ray Strachey, had already aligned themselves withscientific and technological progress, and that during the dark years of war they mobilized women to enter conventionally male