When Anne Innis saw her first Giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten.
About author(s): Anne Innis Dagg , a member of the Order of Canada, works with the Anne Innis Dagg Foundation to support the conservation of Giraffe throughout Africa..
A new preface relates Dagg\'s experience as the subject of the documentary The Woman Who Loves Giraffes.
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.
Dagg would spend many years fighting against the marginalization of women in the arts and sciences.
Finally she opted instead to pursue her research as an independent "Citizen scientist," while working part-time as an academic advisor.
Dagg was continually frustrated in her efforts to secure a position as a tenured professor despite her many publications and exemplary teaching record.
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.
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.
Subsequently, Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey would be driven by a similar devotion to study the behaviour of wild apes.
Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behaviour of Giraffe in the wild.
She knew she had to learn more about this marvellous animal.
When Anne Innis saw her first Giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten
