Feminine Ingenuity: How Women Inventors Changed America

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"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.

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Anne L. Macdonaldwas for fifteen years chairperson of the history department ofthe National Cathedral Schoolin Washington, D.C. She was the author ofNo Idle Hands: The Social History of American KnittingandFeminine Ingenuity: Women and Invention in America. She died in 2016.