African American Women Chemists Provide A Summary
Creating paper that will relate to your choice of book that is listed underneath.
Choosing only one book for this paper.
In this paper one demonstrate your deep understanding of a subject and/or person that we either learned associated with the idea of women in the world of science, math and engineering sciences.
Were you able to form a personal connection to the individual, group, or story? If you are not able to form a personal connection feel free to indicate how this individual, group, or story moved you personally.
Provide outside research to your chosen book in order to indicate how this field has changed to present day.
The books are listed below, so if anyone has read one of these books already please let me know!
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Abbate, Janet.
Recoding Gender: Participation in Computing.
The MIT Press, 2012. ISBN:
9780262534536.
Fine, Cordelia.
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
W.W. Norton & Company, 2011. ISBN: 9780393340242
Layne, Margaret.
Women in Engineering: Pioneers and Trailblazers
. American Society of Civil
Engineers, 2009. ISBN: 9780784410158.
McGrayne, Sharon.
Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous
Discoveries
. Joseph Henry Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780309072700.
Nolen, Stephanie.
Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race
Basic Books, 2004. ISBN: 9781568583198.
Padua, Sydney.
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the
First Computer
. Penguin Group, 2016. ISBN: 9780141981536.
Shetterly, Margot Lee.
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black
Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.
William Morrow Paperbacks, 2016.
ISBN: 9780062363602.
Sobel, Dava.
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure
of the Stars
. Penguin Books, 2017. ISBN: 9780143111344.
Schiebinger, Londa.
The Mind Has No Sex?: Women in the Origins of Modern Science
. Harvard
University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780674576254.
Bowen, Dierdre M. “Visibly Invisible: The Burden of Race and Gender for Female Students of Color
Striving for an Academic Career in the Sciences.” In
Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of
Race and Class for Women in Academia
. Edited by Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs et al. Utah State
University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780874219227.
Moffitt, Kimberly R. et al. “Present and Unequal: A Third-Wave Approach to Voice Parallel
Experiences in Managing Oppression and Bias in the Academy.” In
Presumed Incompetent: The
Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia
. Edited by Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs et
al. Utah State University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780874219227.
Weinstock, Maia. “Chien-Shiung Wu, Courageous Hero of Physics.”
A Passion for Science: Stories
of Discovery and Invention.
Edited by Suw Charman-Anderson. Finding Ada, 2015.
ASIN: B01938WNF4
Oldenziel, Ruth.
Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America
1870-1945
. Amsterdam University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9789053563816
Howes, Ruth, and Caroline Herzenberg. Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project.
Temple University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9781592131921.
Shetterly, Margot Lee.
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black
Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
. William Morrow Paperbacks, 2016.
ISBN: 9780062363602.
Nolen, Stephanie.
Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race.
Basic Books, 2004.
ISBN: 9781568583198
Robbins, Dean, and Lucy Knisley.
Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the
First Lunar Landing
. Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2017.
Toole, Betty Alexandra. Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers. Strawberry Press, 1998. ISBN:
9780912647180.
Abbate, Janet. Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing. The MIT Press,
2012. ISBN: 9780262018067.
Cohoon, Joanne and William Aspray.
Women and Information Technology: Research on
Underrepresentation
. The MIT Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780262533072.
Brown, Jeannette E. “African American Women Chemists.” (2012)
Ottaviani, Jim, and Maris Wicks. Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and
Biruté Galdikas. First Second, 2013. ISBN: 9781596438651.
Ottaviani, Jim, and Leland Myrick. Feynman. First Second, 2013. ISBN: 9781596438279.
Beaty, Andrea, and David Roberts. Ada Twist, Scientist. Harry N. Abrams, 2016. ISBN:
9781419721373.
Fine, Cordelia. Chapters 18-21. Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism
Create Difference. W.W. Norton & Company, 2011. ISBN: 9780393340242.
Moore Trescott, Martha. “Women in the Intellectual Development of Engineering.” In
Women in
Engineering: Pioneers and Trailblazers
. Edited by Margaret E. Layne. American Society of Civil
Engineers, 2009. ISBN: 9780784410158.
Brittain, James. “From Computer to Electrical Engineer: The Remarkable Career of Edith Clarke.”
In
Women in Engineering: Pioneers and Trailblazers
. American Society of Civil Engineers,
2009. ISBN: 9780784410158.
Gornick, Vivian.
Women in Science: Then and Now. The Feminist Press,
2009. ISBN:
9781558615878.