SuitabookWomen of steel and stone
Anna M. Lewis
- Reading
- Read one profile at a time, then pause over its historical setting and any sidebar or interview.
- Themes
- Women’s participation in technical and design fields: The book profiles historical and contemporary women working in these fields and highlights their interests, strengths and achievements. Women’s involvement and accomplishment in these disciplines are clearly presented as valuable and encouraging.
- Personal qualities and historical change: Profiles focus on qualities and passions while some are placed against suffrage, civil rights and Industrial Revolution settings. The book appears to connect individual lives with historical contexts and to offer advice, but the balance between personal agency and social conditions remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The historical framing invites attention to how opportunities and obstacles for women may have changed across suffrage, civil rights and industrial history. The full balance of achievement and difficulty is not clear.