Archives of Women in Science and Engineering
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Secondary Sources
Books Published on Women in Science, 1980-1995: A Brief Bibliographical Essay
Alic, Margaret. Hypatia's heritage: a history of women in science from antiquity through the nineteenth century. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.
Ambrose, Susan, et al. Journeys of women in science and engineering : no universal constants. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997.
Ajzenberg-Selove, Fay. A matter of choices : memoirs of a female physicist. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
Bailey, Martha. American women in science, 1950 to the present: a biographical dictionary. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1998. (Q141 B254)
Biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. Edited by Marilyn Ogilvie and Joy Harvey. New York: Routledge, 2000. (Q141 B5285)
Chinn, Pauline W.U. Becoming a scientist: narratives of women entering science and engineering. n.p.: Pauline W.U. Chinn, 1995.
Creese, Mary R.S. Ladies in the laboratory? : American and British women in science, 1800-1900 : a survey of their contributions to research. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1997.
Glater, Ruth Ann Bobrov. Slam the door gently: the making and unmaking of a female scientist. Santa Barbara: Fithian Press, 1997.
Gornick, Vivian. Women in science: portraits from a world in transition. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.
Haber, Louis. Women pioneers of science. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979.
Herzenberg, Caroline L. Women scientists from antiquity
to the present : an index : an international reference listing and biographical dictionary
of some notable women scientists from ancient to modern times. West Cornwall, Ct.:
Locust Hill Press, 1986.
Keller, Evelyn Fox. Reflections on gender and science. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch. Nobel Prize women in science : their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries. Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Publishing Group, 1993.
Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey. Women and science: an annotated bibiliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996.
The outer circle: women in the scientific community. Edited by Harriet Zuckerman, Jonathan R. Cole, and John T. Bruer. New York: Norton, 1991.
Reynolds, Moira Davison. American women scientists: 23 inspiring biographies, 1900-2000. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1999. (Q141 R44)
Rossiter, Margaret W. Women scientists in America: the limits of opportunity, 1940 1972. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Shearer, Benjamin and Barbara. Notable women in the life sciences: a biographical dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. (QH26 N68)
Notable women in the physical sciences: a biographical dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. (Q141 N734)
Straus, Eugene. Rosalyn Yalow, Nobel laureate: her life and work in medicine: a biographical memoir. New York: Plenum Trade, 1998. (R154 Y24 S77)
Subrahmanyan, Lalita. Women scientists in the Third World: the Indian experience. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998. (Q130 S8)
Trescott, Martha Moore. New images, new paths: a history of women in engineering in the United States, 1850-1980. Dallas, TX: T & L Enterprises, 1996. (TA157 T76 1996)
Women scientists in America : struggles and strategies to 1940. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
Uneasy careers and intimate lives: women in science, 1789-1979. Edited by Pnina G. Abir-Am and Dorinda Outram. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987.
Warren Rebecca Lowe. The scientist within you : experiments and biographies of distinguished women in science. Eugene, Or.: ACI Publishing, 1994.
Wasserman, Elga. The door in the dream: conversations with eminent women in science. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2000. (QH26 W375 2000)
Women in the Antarctic. Edited by Esther D. Rothblum, Jacqueline S. Weinstock, and Jessica F. Morris. New York: Haworth Press, 1998. (G860 W66)
Women in science and engineering. Edited by Cecily Cannan Selby. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1999. (Q11 N489a v. 869)
Yount, Lisa. A to Z of women in science and math. New York: Facts on File, 1999. (Q141 Y675)