Doing Democracy : Striving for Political Literacy and Social Justice

Women in the Shadowsdiscusses the biographies of five brilliant and talented women born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Mileva Einstein-Mari?, Margarete Jeanne Trakl, Lise Meitner, Milena Jesenskaacute;, and Margarete Schuuml;tte-Lihotzky. Charles S. Chiu creates "a narrative against forgetting, as a small step out of darkness" by writing about these women's accomplishments, which were overshadowed by those of the famous men in their lives. Edith Borchardt's translation brings this narrative to a wider audience.Women in the Shadowswill interest scientists and scholars in the humanities as well as the general reader. The women portrayed represent various fields-mathematics, physics, music and literature, journalism, and architecture-making Women in the Shadows suitable for courses on the history of science, German and Austrian studies, as well as women's studies.