Introduction<\/B>
Reading Women’s Silence in the History of Science
Section I<\/B>
Antiquity to the Middles Ages<\/B>
Physicians, Midwives, and “Grannies”
The Supernatural and the Sanctified
Section II<\/B>
The Renaissance & The Enlightenment<\/B>
Women Calculate Their Own Path to Science
The Wives and Sisters of Scientific Partnerships
Women and the Science of the Body in the Scientific Revolution
Empire and Exploitation in the Age of Exploration
Section III<\/B>
The Long Nineteenth Century<\/B>
Women Science Writers and Popularizers
Botany for Ladies
From the Home to the Hospital
Home Physicians and Lady Doctors
Section IV<\/B>
The Twentieth Century, Pre-World War II<\/B>
“Powerful levers that move worlds!”
The Home as Laboratory
Women’s Reproductive Freedom and the Eugenics Movement
Women Archaeologists and Anthropologists Humanize their Past
What Cannot Be Unmade
Section V<\/B>
Twentieth Century, Post-World War II<\/B>
The Plight of Women Refugee Scientists
Coming to America
Nature’s Housekeepers Begin a Movement
The Double Bind in the Sciences
More than Astronauts
Reconfiguring the Female
The Problem with “Female Firsts”
Afterword<\/B>
Other women to inspire
Index
Acknowledgments & Picture Credits
Endnotes
Bibliography
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