Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

Featured Items

These choices provide fresh perspectives on scientific contributions.

Flora's Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada

Editor

Ann Shteir

Description

Focuses on Australia and Canada and includes 87 photos.

Year

2022

Women in American Cartography: An Invisible Social History

Author

Judith Tyner

Description

Covers more than 50 cartographers from the early 19th century through the 20th century and includes profiles of academics, activists, commercial mapmakers, government workers, illustrators, teachers, and travelers.

Year

2020

Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab

Author

Deboleena Roy

Description

Focuses on bringing feminism into laboratory research and its ethical considerations from the micro scale of molecules to the macro scale of society.

Year

2018

Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Author

Sarah Scoles

Description

Popular biography based on extensive interviews with Jill Tarter.

Year

2017

Sexual Politics and Feminist Science: Women Sexologists in Germany, 1900–1933

Author

Kirsten Leng

Description

Covers Ruth Bré, Johanna Elberskirchen, Henriette Fürth, Sofie Lazarsfeld, Rosa Mayreder, Grete Meisel-Hess, Anna Rüling, Helene Stöcker, and Mathilde Vaerting.

Year

2018

Equivalence: Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley

Author

Amanda L. Golbeck

Description

Elizabeth L. Scott pioneered the use of statistics to help solve social problems and advocated on behalf of women in academia and science.

Year

2017

Women and Cartography in the Progressive Era

Author

Christina E. Dando

Description

Focuses on community mapping and public geography projects created and used by activists, missionaries, and social workers.

Year

2018

A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War

Author

Patricia Fara

Description

Focuses on Great Britain.

Year

2018

Writing Intimacy into Feminist Geography

Editor

Pamela Moss and Courtney Donovan

Description

Examines ways to incorporate emotional research methodologies such as intimacy into academic writing and scientific practice.

Year

2017

Women in Industrial and Systems Engineering: Key Advances and Perspectives on Emerging Topics

Editor

Alice E. Smith

Description

Organized into sections on analytics, education, health, logistics, and production.

Year

2020