Reads tagged with “women”
Rebecca Solnit on Breaking Silence as Our Mightiest Weapon Against Oppression
“We are our stories, stories that can be both prison and the crowbar to break open the door of that prison.”
Encke’s Comet, Celestial Poetics, and the Dawn of Popular Astronomy: How Emma Converse Became the Carl Sagan of the 19th Century
“The moment so long looked for may be nearer than we think, when, with a powerful grasp, like that of Newton, some watcher of the stars shall seize the secret of cometic history.”
Meet Mary Somerville: The Brilliant Woman for Whom the Word “Scientist” Was Coined
How a Scottish polymath forever changed the course of gender in science and made a high art of connecting the seemingly disconnected.
The Dinner Party: Artist Judy Chicago’s Iconic Antidote to the Erasure of Women in the History of Creative Culture
From Hypatia to Susan B. Anthony to Virginia Woolf, a sacrament and an insurrection restoring women’s place in history.
How Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner Discovered Nuclear Fission, Paved the Way for Women in Science, and Was Denied the Nobel Prize
“Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep joy and awe that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.”
Hooked on the Heavens: How Caroline Herschel, the First Professional Woman Astronomer, Nearly Died by Meathook in the Name of Science
How a paragon of persistence in the face of hardship discovered eight comets and paved the way for women in science.
Trailblazing 18th-Century Mathematician Émilie du Châtelet, Who Popularized Newton, on Gender in Science and the Nature of Genius
“One must know what one wants to be. In the latter endeavors irresolution produces false steps, and in the life of the mind confused ideas.”
The Glass Universe: How Harvard’s Unsung Women Astronomers Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos Decades Before Women Could Vote
The untold story of the trailblazing women scientists and patrons who catalogued the stars and helped prove that the universe is expanding.
Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner’s Only Direct Discussion of Gender in Science
“For what human problems do ideal solutions exist?”
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