Women of Science: Righting the Record

Book Overview

Women of Science focuses on accomplishments of women in astronomy, archaeology, biology, chemistry, crystallography, engineering, geology, mathematics, medicine, and physics. It confirms what other recent work has shown: past women scientists worked outside of "traditional" academic teaching and research positions and, thus, are frequently invisible in the professional scientific literature.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253208130
• ISBN13: 9780253208132
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Superb piece of work.

I came across this book while studying for a teaching qualification. I'd already heard about how Lise Meitner and Rosalynd Frankin had been side-lined by history writers, so I thought I'd do a project on the history of women in science. This book is a real eye opener. There are so many areas where women's contributions to science have been ignored or stolen by men that one can get quite agitated reading this book. Buy it, read it, and have your eyes opened. It is not a polemic against "bad men keeping good women down", for those who may be worried about such things. It is, however, an excellent historical-biographical account of the unsung heroes of science