Research Catalog

Title

Smitten by giraffe : my life as a citizen scientist / Anne Innis Dagg.

Author

Dagg, Anne Innis

Publication

• Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xii, 226 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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."--

Series Statement

Footprints series ; 22

Uniform Title

Footprints series (Montréal, Quebec) ; 22.

Subjects

• Women college teachers
• Women zoologists
• Women scientists
• Giraffe
• Africa
• Dagg, Anne Innis
• Giraffe > Africa
• Canada
• Women college teachers > Canada > Biography
• Autobiographies
• Sexism in higher education > Canada
• Women in higher education > Canada
• Women zoologists > Canada > Biography
• Biography
• Women scientists > Canada > Biography

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies.
• Biography.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index.

Contents

Family life -- Giraffe research in Africa -- Research, first teaching, and earning a PhD -- Being a professor: teaching and research -- Completing research on animal gaits -- First scientific book on giraffe! -- Environmental efforts, 1972-1988 -- A potpourri of interests, 1972-1980 -- A sexist university: how bad was it? Awful! -- Social activism: working for equality for women in the arts -- Follow-up: homosexuality, taxonomy, and mammalogists -- Women and science at Canadian universities -- Follow-up: university life, sociobiology, infanticide, and rape -- Focusing again on animals -- Return to giraffe.

Call Number

JFE 16-13561

ISBN

• 9780773547995
• 0773547991

OCLC

945029789

Author

Dagg, Anne Innis, author.

Title

Smitten by giraffe : my life as a citizen scientist / Anne Innis Dagg.

Publisher

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Footprints series ; 22

Footprints series (Montréal, Quebec) ; 22.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index.

Other Form:

Dagg, Anne Innis, 1933-, author. Smitten by giraffe. Footprints series Footprints series ; (CaOONL)20169037061

Research Call Number

JFE 16-13561