Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA Brenda Maddox, Harper Collins, 2003 This biography of Rosalind Franklin seeks to dispel some of the misinformation about Franklin provided in James Watson’s 1968 autobiography. Franklin’s story serves as an example of how brilliant female scientists can be marginalized and ignored because of …
Barbara McClintock: Nobel Prize Geneticist Edith Hope Fine, Enslow Publishers, 1998 This biography, aimed at a juvenile audience, is just the thing for any middle school or high school students you know. Recommend or gift this book and provide him/her with a strong female scientist role model.
Woman’s Nature: Rationalizations of Inequality Marian Lowe, Ruth Hubbard, Pergamon Press, 1983 This book, which is out of print, tackles some “scientific” rationalizations of sexism and strict gender roles. It’s available at the UW Libraries.
The Politics of Women’s Biology Ruth Hubbard, Rutgers University Press, 1990 From the Amazon.com product description: For a range of historical and contemporary issues in eugenics, human evolution, and procreative technology, Ruth Hubbard explains why scientific descriptions and choices should not generalize human, or female, attributes without acknowledging the realities …
The Door in the Dream: Conversations with Eminent Women in Science Elga Wasserman, Joseph Henry Press, 2002 From a review in the New England Journal of Medicine: Reading the stories of women scientists who have risen to the top of their profession should provide hope and inspiration to those who …
