Smitten by Giraffe: My Life as a Citizen Scientist (Footprints Series #28)

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Synopsis
When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvelous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behaviour of giraffe in the wild. Subsequently, Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey would be driven by a similar devotion to study the behaviour of wild apes. In Smitten by Giraffe, the noted feminist reflects on her scientific work as well as the leading role she has played in numerous activist campaigns. On returning home to Canada, Anne married physicist Ian Dagg, had three children, published a number of scientific papers, taught at several local universities, and in 1967 earned her PhD in biology at the University of Waterloo. Dagg was continually frustrated in her efforts to secure a position as a tenured professor despite her many publications and exemplary teaching record. Finally she opted instead to pursue her research as an independent “citizen scientist,” while working part-time as an academic advisor. Dagg would spend many years fighting against the marginalization of women in the arts and sciences. Boldly documenting widespread sexism in universities while also discussing Dagg’s involvement with important zoological topics such as homosexuality, infanticide, sociobiology, and taxonomy, Smitten by Giraffe offers an inside perspective on the workings of scientific research and debate, the history of academia, and the rise of second-wave feminism.
Copyright:
2016

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
256 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780773599758
Related ISBNs:
9780773547995, 9780773599741, 9780228009177
Publisher:
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Copyrighted By:
Anne Innis Dagg
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Science, Biographies and Memoirs, Technology
Reading Age:
18 and up
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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