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"Anomalies--Pioneering Women in Petroleum Geology: 1917-2017 is a celebration of individual courage, tenacity, and professionalism as well as a timely reminder of our past, when male-dominated professions excluded women. The social structure outside this profession amplified the struggle for equality: the inability to vote, the dictate that women should not work outside the home when married, the pervasive practice of lower pay for equal work, the paucity of advancement opportunities, and the lack of recognition in companies and associations. Surprisingly, it spans a stretch of time virtually equal to the time span that men were finally being valued as petroleum geologists. The timeframe began with the period prior to WWI when even a male geologist was looked upon with disdain as having no useful purpose in the search for oil. As geologists gained acceptance, war intervened, creating a vacuum into which the female geology graduate stepped up to the challenge. The women described in Anomalies took the steppingstones necessary to gain respect and become leaders in their chosen field. They are celebrated herein."--Page 4 of cover

Der Autor stellt die Oktoberrevolution in den Zusammenhang des langen Revolutionszyklus, der mit der Französischen Revolution im Jahr 1789 eröffnet wurde und mit dem Sieg der Bolschewiki 1917 (schließlich auch mit der chinesischen Revolution) immer wieder die Frage nach der Bedeutung der "Großen Revolutionen" bzw. der "Leitrevolutionen" für die Entwicklung der bürgerlich-kapitalistischen Gesellschaft aufgeworfen hat. Der Zyklus des Aufstiegs und Niedergangs der Sowjetunion wird im Kontext der großen weltpolitischen und weltgeschichtlichen Widerspruchskonstellationen des 20. Jahrhunderts untersucht. Was Revolution in den Ländern des entwickelten Kapitalismus heute heißen kann, ist Gegenstand des abschließenden Kapitels.

Introduction / Elizabeth Darling & Lynne Walker ; Chapter 1: An irresistible movement / Lynne Walker ; Chapter 2: Becoming truly alive / Elizabeth Darline ; Chapter 3: A collection of scimitar minds / Gillian Darley ; Chapter 4: Beyond the drawing board / Edward Bottoms ; Chapter 5: Why are there so few women architects? / Elain Harwood ; Chapter 6: A transnational assemblage / Rachel Lee ; Chapter 7: The antipodean diaspora, 1920-2000 / Julie Willis & Karen Burns ; Chapter 8: Tributaries, flow and an extraordinary alchemy / Rosa Ainley ; Epilogue: Diagram of relative positions / Helen Thomas ; Appendix