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Women Founders of the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780773591851
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Women social scientists -- History; Social sciences -- History; Social sciences -- Methodology -- History;

Ground-breaking and original, this book debunks the myth that empirical social science has been dominated by its male founders and methodologists. The author re-analyses the critical role British, French and American women played in creating the field from the 16th through the early 20th centuries. Included are Mary Astell, Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Martineau, Beatrice Webb, Catharine Macauley, Florence Nightingale, Madame de Staël and Jane Addams.

Lynn McDonald is professor emerita in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph.