‘Alice in Eugenics-Land’: Feminism and Eugenics in the scientific careers of Alice Lee and Ethel Elderton
- 1 March 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Annals of Science
- Vol. 36 (2) , 145-158
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00033797900200451
Abstract
Two laboratories which offered the new career of scientific work to women at the beginning of the twentieth century were the Biometric Laboratory and the Galton Eugenics Laboratory at University College London. The scientific careers of two women, Dr. Alice Lee (1859–1939) and Dr. Ethel Elderton (1878–1954), are examined. Intellectual and economic factors involved in the choice of a career in eugenics are described, together with some aspects of the relationship between eugenics and feminism.Keywords
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