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About this book
When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvellous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behaviour of giraffe in the wild. Subsequently, Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey would be driven by a similar devotion to study the behaviour 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 tenured professor despite her many publications and exemplary 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 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 academia, and the rise of second-wave feminism. A new preface relates Dagg's experience as the subject of the documentary The Woman Who Loves Giraffes.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Illustrations
- 1 Family Life
- 2 Giraffe Research in Africa
- 3 Research, First Teaching, and Earning a PhD
- 4 Being a Professor: Teaching and Research
- 5 Completing Research on Animal Gaits
- 6 First Scientific Book on Giraffe!
- 7 Environmental Efforts, 1972–1988
- 8 A Potpourri of Interests, 1972–1980
- 9 A Sexist University: How Bad Was It? Awful!
- 10 Social Activism: Working for Equality for Women in the Arts
- 11 Follow-Up: Homosexuality, Taxonomy, and Mammalogists
- 12 Women and Science at Canadian Universities
- 13 Follow-Up: University Life, Sociobiology, Infanticide, and Rape
- 14 Focusing Again on Animals
- 15 Return to Giraffe
- 16 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index