Books:
Research:
AAUW. (1995). How Schools Shortchange Girls. New York: Marlowe & Co. A critical look at gender equity in K-12 education. Synthesizes research results in many different areas of schooling.
AAUW. (1999). Gender Gaps. New York: Marlowe & Co. A follow-up report to their first book How Schools Shortchange Girls. Reports on progress made in K-12 education for gender equity in many areas of education.
National Science Foundation/M. Crowley. (1980). Science and Engineering Personnel: A National Overview. Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation. Series NSF 80-316.
Clewell, B. C., Anderson, B. T., Thorpe, M. (1996). Breaking the Barriers: Helping Female and Minority Students Succeed in Mathematics and Science. Jossey-Bass.
Sadker, M. & Sadker, D. (1994). Failing at Fairness. New York: Scribners. A piercing look at gender in the K-12 classroom and how gender affects educational experiences.
Tobias, S. (1990). They’re Not Dumb, They’re Different. Tucson, AZ: Research Corp. A book describing research on why certain groups of people leave science and have trouble in science courses.
Philosophy of Science/ Feminism and Science:
Birke, L. (1986). Women, Feminism, and Biology: The feminist challenge. NY: Methuen.
Bleier, R. (1984). Science and Gender: A Critique of Biology and its Theories on Women. NY: Pergamon Press.
Bleier, R. (1988). Feminist Approaches to Science. ??
Cole, J. (1979). Fair Science: Women in the Scientific Community. The Free Press.
Davis, C.S., Ginorio, A., Hollenshead, C., Lazarus, B., & Rayman, P. (1996). The Equity Equation: Fostering the Advancement of Women in the Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering. Jossey-Bass.
Eisenhart, M. & Finkel, E. (1998). Women's Science: Learning and Succeeding from the Margins. University of Chicago Press.
Hanson, S. (1996). Lost Talent: Women in the Sciences. Temple University Press.
Harding, S. (1986). The Science Question in Feminism. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press.
Harding, S. & O'Barr, J. (Eds.) (1987). Sex and Scientific Inquiry. University of Chicago Press.
Harding, S. (1991). Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Hass, V., & Perrucci, C.C. (1984). Women in Scientific and Engineering Professions. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. Papers from a national conference on women in the professions.
Hubbard, M., Henifin, M.S., and Fried, B. (Eds.) (1979). Women Looking at Biology Looking at Women: A collection of feminist critiques. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall.
Keller, E. F. (1985). Reflections on Gender and Science. New Haven: Yale University Press. A discussion on the gendered characterizations of science and reasoning, and possibilities of gender-free science.
Laslett, B., et. al. (1996). Gender and Scientific Authority. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Longino, H. (1990). Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry. NY: Princeton Press.
Nelson, L. H. & Nelson, J. (Eds.) (1997). Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Reed, E. (1978). Sexism & Science. NY: Pathfinder Press.
Rose, H. (1994). Love, Power, and Knowledge: Towards a Feminist Transformation of the Sciences. Indiana University Press.
Rosser, S. (1986). Teaching Science and Health from a Feminist Perspective. Pergamon Press.
Rosser, S. (1990). Female Friendly Science: Applying Women's Studies Methods and Theories to Attract Students. New York: Pergamon Press.
Rosser, S. (1997). Re-engineering Female Friendly Science. Teacher's College Press.
Sex and Sensibility: Gender and Scientific Inquiry 1780-1945. ?????
Schiebinger, L. (1991). The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Schiebinger, L. (1999). Has Feminism Changed Science? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Shepard, Linda Jean. (1993). Lifting the Veil: The Feminine Face of Science. Boston, MA: Shambhala.
Sonnert, G., & Holton, G. (1995). Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender Dimension. Rutgers University Press.
Spanier, B. (1995). Im/Partial Science: Gender Ideology in Molecular Biology. Indiana University Press.
Tuana, N., Ed. (1989). Feminism & Science. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. A collection of essays about the interaction of gender and science.
Wertheim, M. (1995). Pythagoras’ Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. Wertheim examines the issue of physics as a religiously inspired activity, and suggests that this "priestly culture" of physics has served as one of the barriers to women interested in physics.
Psychology & Sociology:
Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, & Tarule. (1986). Women’s Ways of Knowing. New York: Basic Books. Results of extensive interviewing with women, leading to a psychology of how women develop self, voice, and mind.
Gilligan, C. (1982). In a different voice: Psychological theory and women’s development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Tannen, D. (1990). You Just Don’t Understand. New York: Ballantine Books. A book on the differences between language of men and women.
Vignettes, History, and Exposition:
Abir-Am, P. & Outram, D. (Eds.) (1987). Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science 1789-1979. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Alic, M. (1986). Hypatia's Heritage: A history of women in science from antiquity through the nineteenth century. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
Ambrose, S., Dunkle, K., Lazurs, B. Nair, I. Harkus, D. (1997). Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering: No Universal Constants. Temple University Press.
Bigony, B. (1991). Women at Stout: A Centennial Retrospective. University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
Gates, B. & Shteir, A. (Eds.) (1997). Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science. University of Wisconsin Press.
Gornick, V. (1983). Women In Science. New York: Touchstone Simon & Schuster. A combination of vignettes and prose describing the paths women have taken and the experiences women have had in science, and how being scientists has affected the rest of their lives.
Grinstein, L., Rose, R., & Rafailovich, M. (1993). Women in Chemistry and Physics. A Biobibliographic Sourcebook. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
Haas, V., & Perrucci, C. (Eds.) (1984). Women in Scientific and Engineering Professions. University of Michigan Press.
Keller, E. F. (1998). A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock. W.H. Freeman & Co.
McGrayne, S. B. (1993/1998?). Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, Carol Pub. Group.
Ogilvie, M.B. (1986). Women In Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. A biographical dictionary with annotated (large!) bibliography.
Ottaviani, J. & 11 artists. (1999). Dignifying Science. Ann Arbor, MI: GT Labs. A graphic novel containing vignettes of six women scientists.
Rodda, A. (1993). Women and the Environment. Zed Books Ltd.
Rosser, S. (1995). Teaching the Majority: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering. Teachers College Press.
Rossiter, M. (1982, 1995). Women Scientists in America (2 vols.) Baltimore MD: John’s Hopkins University Press. Volume I examines pre-1940 science and scientists—their struggles and successes. Volume II focuses on 1940 to 1972.
Sayre, A. (1975). Rosalind Franklin and DNA. W. W. Norton & Co.
Traweek, S. (1983). Beamtimes and Lifetimes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Press. Tells the tale of being a woman in high-energy physics: the culture, the barriers, the pleasures.
Yost, E. (1943). American Women of Science. NY: Frederick A. Stokes.
Yost, E. (1959). Women of Modern Science. NY: Dodd, Mead.
General Women in Science:
Byrne, E. (1993). Women and Science: The Snark Syndrome. Washington, D.C.: Falmer Press.
Humphreys, Sheila M. (1982). Women and Minorities in Science: Strategies for Increasing Participation. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Kahle, Jane Butler. (1985). Women in Science: A Report from the Field.
Kass-Simon, G., Farnes, P., & Nash, D. (1990). Women of Science: Righting the Record. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Keith, S. & Keith, P. (Eds.) (1990). Proceedings of the National Conference on Women in Mathematics and Science. St. Cloud State University, MN, Nov. 10-11, 1989, 5-17.
Kirkup, Gill and Laurie Smith Keller. (1992). Inventing Women: Science, Technology and Gender.
McIlwee, J. & Robinson, J.G. (1992). Women in Engineering. Albany NY: State University of New York Press.
National Research Council Committee on Women in Science and Engineering. (1991). Women in Science and Engineering: Increasing their Numbers in the 1990s: A Statement on Policy and Strategy. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Orenstein, P. (1994). Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap. NY: Doubleday.
Pattatucci, A. (Ed.) (1998). Women in Science: Meeting Career Challenges. Sage Publications.
Rayman, P., & Brett, B. (1993). Pathways for Women in the Sciences. Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College Center for Research on Women.
Sanders, Jo. 1994. Lifting the Barriers: 600 Strategies that REALLY WORK to Increase Girls Participation in Science, Mathematics and Computers.
Searing, S. (1994). Women and Science: Issues and Resources. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin System, Women's Studies Librarian.
Selby, C. C. (Ed. ) (1999). Women in Science and Engineering: Choices for Success. NY: New York Academy of Sciences.
Weisbard, P., Apple, R. D., & Searing, S. (Eds.) (1993). The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology: A Bibliographic Guide to the Professions and the Disciplines. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin System, Women's Studies Librarian.
Zahm, J. (1991). Woman in Science: With an introductory chapter on woman's long struggle for things of the mind. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press.
Other Books of Interest:
Collins, L., Chrisler, J., Quina, K. (1998). Career Strategies for Women in Academe: Arming Athena. Sage Publications.
Stanley,A. (1993). Mothers & Daughters of Invention. Rutgers.
Statham, Richardson, & Cook. (1991). Gender and University Teaching. Albany NY: State University of New York Press.
Talbot, M. (1910). The Education of Women. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Tidball, M. E., Smith, D., Tidball, C., & Wolf-Wendel, L. (1999). Taking Women Seriously: Lessons and Legacies for Educating the Majority. Oryx Press.
Tobias, S. & Tomizuka, C. (1992). Breaking the Science Barrier: How to Explore and Understand the Sciences. NY: The College Board.
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