The Women Founders of the Social Sciences (Women's Experiences Series, 5)
By Lynn McDonald.
Description
"This is a daring and exciting book that will be much more controversial than any usual history of ideas. McDonald shows that women like Florence Nightingale, Harriet Martineau and Beatrice Webb, while well-known historical figures, have been overlooked as founders of social science history. Nightingale was neither a romantic nor an hysteric, but an originator of applied statistics; Webb was the first social scientist to use participant observation; and Martineau wrote the first book on how to conduct sociological research. Feminists today, in their rejection of empiricism, are rejecti...
ISBN(s)
0886292190, 9780886292195
