Feminine Ingenuity: Women and Inventions from Colonial Times to the **

By Anne Macdonald

Book Overview

"Written with clarity and a lively eye both for detail and for the progress of feminism in the United States." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE In this fascinating study of American women inventors, historian Anne Macdonald shows how creative, resourceful, and entrepreneurial women helped to shatter the ancient stereotypes of mechanically inept womanhood. In presenting their stories, Anne Macdonald's thorough research in patent archives and her engaging use of period magazine, journals, lectures, records from major fairs and expositions, and interviews, have made her book nothing less than an overall history of the women's movement in America. From the Trade Paperback edition.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345358112
• ISBN13: 9780345358110
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 514 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Magnificent resource!

One of my students needed this book for a research project on Madeline Joslyn Gage and her pamphlet titled "Woman as Inventor." This book is a tremendous resource on that pamphlet but also many women inventors, innovators and engineers who are often overlooked, ignored or completely disregarded in other books and resources. Macdonald's analysis is well written and thorough. A must read for anybody interested in learning more about the real contribution women made to the ingenuity of America.