Smitten by giraffe : my life as a citizen scientist

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Label

Smitten by giraffe : my life as a citizen scientist

Title remainder

my life as a citizen scientist

Statement of responsibility

Anne Innis Dagg

Creator

• Dagg, Anne Innis, 1933-

Author

• Dagg, Anne Innis, 1933-

Subject

• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
• Biography
• Canada
• Dagg, Anne Innis
• Dagg, Anne Innis
• Dagg, Anne Innis, 1933-
• Electronic books
• Electronic books
• Femmes dans l'enseignement supérieur -- Canada -- Biographies
• Femmes scientifiques -- Canada -- Biographies
• Femmes zoologistes -- Canada -- Biographies
• Girafes -- Afrique
• Giraffe
• Giraffe -- Africa
• NATURE / Animals / General
• NATURE / Animals / Wildlife
• Professeures (Enseignement supérieur) -- Canada -- Biographies
• SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General
• Sexism in higher education
• Sexism in higher education -- Canada
• Sexisme dans l'enseignement supérieur -- Canada -- Biographies
• Women college teachers
• Women college teachers -- Canada -- Biography
• Women in higher education
• Women in higher education -- Canada
• Women scientists
• Women scientists -- Canada -- Biography
• Women zoologists
• Women zoologists -- Canada -- Biography
• Africa
• Autobiographies

Genre

• Biography
• Electronic books
• Biographies
• Autobiographies

Language

eng

Summary

• "When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvelous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behavior of giraffe in the wild. Years later, Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey would be driven by a similar devotion to study the behavior of wild apes. In Smitten by Giraffe the noted feminist reflects on her scientific work as well as the leading role she has played in numerous activist campaigns. On returning home to Canada, Anne married physicist Ian Dagg, had three children, published a number of scientific papers, taught at several local universities, and in 1967 earned her PhD in biology at the University of Waterloo. Dagg was continually frustrated in her efforts to secure a position as a regular professor despite her many publications and very good teaching record. Finally she opted instead to pursue her research as an independent "citizen scientist," while working part time as an academic advisor. Dagg would spend many years fighting against the marginalization of women in the arts and sciences."--
• "Boldly documenting widespread sexism in Canadian universities while also discussing Dagg's involvement with important zoological topics such as homosexuality, infanticide, sociobiology, and taxonomy, Smitten by Giraffe offers an inside perspective on the workings of scientific research and debate, the history of Canadian academia, and the rise of second-wave feminism."--

Member of

• Footprints (Cheltenham, England), 22

Assigning source

• Provided by publisher
• Provided by publisher

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

NLC

Dewey number

590.92

Index

index present

LC call number

QL31.D34

LC item number

A3 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Footprints series

Series volume

22