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In the field : a novel / by Pastan, Rachel,author.;
"A novel inspired by the life of the scientist who won the Nobel Prize in 1983, follows Kate Croft who attends college in 1920 and, confused by her own sexuality, finds refuge in the rationality of biology and genetics. In 1920, having persuaded her resistant mother to send her to college, Kate Croft falls in love with science. But science turns out to be marred by human weakness. Despite her hard work and extraordinary gifts, Kate struggles, facing discrimination, competition, and scientific theft. At the same time, a love affair is threatened by Kate's obsession with figuring out the meaning of the puzzling changes she sees in her experiments."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Women geneticists; Sex discrimination in science; Sex role; Sexual orientation; Gender roles.; Sexual orientation.; Sexual preference.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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On account of sex : an annotated bibliography on the status of women in librarianship, 1982-1986 / by Phenix, Katharine,1952-(CARDINAL)173751; McCook, Kathleen de la Peña.On account of sex.; American Library Association.Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship.(CARDINAL)181272;
Subjects: Bibliographies.; Women in library science; Sex discrimination against women; Sex discrimination in employment; Women in information science; Women information scientists; Women librarians;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Juror #3 [large print] / by Patterson, James,1947-author.(CARDINAL)320355; Allen, Nancy(Lawyer),author.(CARDINAL)604113;
Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the Mississippi Bar -- and to the docket of Circuit Judge Baylor, who taps Ruby as defense counsel in a racially charged felony. The murder of a woman from one of the town's oldest families has Rosedale's upper crust howling for blood, and the prosecutor is counting on Ruby's inexperience to help him deliver a swift conviction. Ruby's client is an African American college football star who has returned home after a career-ending injury, and she is determined to build a defense that will stick. She finds help in unexpected quarters from Suzanne, a hard-charging attorney armed to the teeth, and Shorty, a diner cook who knows more than he lets on. Ruby never belonged to the country-club set, but once she nearly married into it. As news breaks of a second murder, Ruby's ex-fiancé, Lee Greene, shows up on her doorstep -- a Southern gentleman in need of a savior. As lurid, intertwining investigations unfold, no one in Rosedale can be trusted, especially the twelve men and women impaneled on the jury. They may be hiding the most incendiary secret of all.
Subjects: Large print books.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Legal fiction (Literature); Women lawyers; Trials (Murder); Elite (Social sciences); Discrimination in criminal justice administration;
Available copies: 43 / Total copies: 57
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The exceptions : Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science / by Zernike, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)501756;
Includes bibliographical references (page 371-392) and index.An epiphany on Divinity Avenue -- The choice -- An immodest proposal -- At the feet of Harvard's great men -- Bungtown road -- "Women, please apply" -- The vow -- "We should distance all competitors" -- Our Millie -- The best home for a feminist -- Liberated lifestyles -- Kendall square -- "This slow and gentle robbery" -- "Fodder" -- Fun in middle age -- Three hundred square feet -- MIT Inc. -- Sixteen tenured women -- X and Y -- All for one or one for all -- "The greater part of the balance -- Epilogue -- The sixteen.In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against its most senior female scientists. It was a seismic cultural event - one that forced institutions across the nation to reckon with the bias faced by girls and women in STEM. This is the story of the women on MIT's faculty who started it all, centered on the life and career of their unlikely leader: Nancy Hopkins, a noted molecular geneticist and cancer researcher and protégée of James Watson, the codiscoverer of the structure of DNA.--
Subjects: Biographies.; Hopkins, Nancy (Nancy H.); Massachusetts Institute of Technology.; Sex discrimination in science; Women scientists; Women; Women college teachers; Sexism in education; Women in science; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 32 / Total copies: 37
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Peculiar institution : America's death penalty in an age of abolition / by Garland, David.(CARDINAL)738903;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-393) and index.Prologue : the exemplary execution -- A peculiar institution -- The American way of death -- Historical modes of capital punishment -- The death penalty's decline -- Processes of transformation -- State and society in america -- Capital punishment in America -- An American abolition -- New political and cultural meanings -- Reinventing the death penalty -- Death and its uses -- Epilogue : discourse and death.
Subjects: Capital punishment; Discrimination in capital punishment; Decentralization in government; Power (Social sciences);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The exceptions [sound recording] : Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science / by Zernike, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)501756; Mazur, Kathe,narrator.(CARDINAL)543054;
Read by Kathe Mazur.From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who broke the story, the inspiring account of the sixteen female scientists who forced MIT to publicly admit it had been discriminating against its female faculty for years, sparking a nationwide reckoning with the pervasive sexism in science.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Biographies.; Hopkins, Nancy (Nancy H.); Massachusetts Institute of Technology.; Sex discrimination in employment; Sex discrimination in science; Women in science; Women scientists; Sexism in education; Women; Women college teachers;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The exceptions [large print] : Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science / by Zernike, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)501756;
"In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against women on its faculty, forcing institutions across the country to confront a problem they had long ignored: the need for more women at the top levels of science. Written by the journalist who broke the story for The Boston Globe, The Exceptions is the untold story of how sixteen highly accomplished women on the MIT faculty came together to do the work that triggered the historic admission. The Exceptions centers on the life of Nancy Hopkins, a reluctant feminist who became the leader of the sixteen and a hero to two generations of women in science. Hired to prestigious universities at the dawn of affirmative action efforts in the 1970s, Dr. Hopkins and her peers embarked on their careers believing that discrimination against women was a thing of the past -- that science was, at last, a pure meritocracy. For years they explained away the discrimination they experienced as the exception, not the rule. Only when these few women came together after decades of underpayment and the denial of credit, advancement, and equal resources to do their work did they recognize the relentless pattern: women were often marginalized and minimized, especially as they grew older. Meanwhile, men of similar or lesser ability had their career paths paved and widened."--
Subjects: Large print books.; Biographies.; Hopkins, Nancy (Nancy H.); Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sex discrimination in higher education; Sexism in science; Sexism in higher education; Women college teachers; Women scientists; Sex discrimination in science; Sex discrimination against women; Sex discrimination in employment;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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Conan Doyle for the defense : the true story of a sensational British murder, a quest for justice, and the world's most famous detective writer / by Fox, Margalit,author.(CARDINAL)475716;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-308) and index."In 1908 an elderly woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow apartment. The police found a convenient but innocent suspect in Oscar Slater--a Jewish cardsharp--who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, already the world-famous creator of Sherlock Holmes, was outraged by this injustice and became obsessed with the case. Over the years he scoured trial transcripts, newspaper accounts, and police diaries, meticulously noting myriad holes and inconsistencies. Finally, in 1927, his work won Slater's freedom. Conan Doyle for the Defense immerses readers in the science of Edwardian crime detection, telling the story of how Conan Doyle managed to get this murder conviction overturned by employing the methods of his most famous creation. Along the way, Fox illuminates a watershed moment in the history of criminal justice when reflexive prejudice began gradually to be replaced by reason and the scientific method"--
Subjects: Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930.; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Murder; Criminal investigation; Forensic sciences; Vindication; Detectives;
Available copies: 32 / Total copies: 35
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Imposter / by Levin, Cait,author.;
"When high school sophomore Cameron Goldberg finally gets the chance to take a computer science elective and then join the competitive RoboSub team, she must learn how to battle her imposter syndrome and let her talents shine." -- Provided by publisher.Ages 12 and up.Grades 7-9.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Women in computer science; Sex discrimination against women; Impostor phenomenon; Teenagers; Self-confidence; Parent and child;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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I am the most dangerous thing : poems / by Williams, Candace(Poet),author.(CARDINAL)888499;
"Over the course of these poems, the Black, queer protagonist begins to erase violent structures and fill the white spaces with her hard-won wisdom and love. I Am the Most Dangerous Thing doesn't just use poetry to comment on life and history. The book is a comment on writing itself. What have words done? When does writing become a form of disengagement, or worse, violence? The book is an exercise in paring the state down to its true logic of violence and imagining what can happen next. There are many contradictions-Although the protagonist teaches the same science that was used to justify enslavement and a racial caste system, she knows she will die at the hands of science and denies the state the last word by penning her own death certificate. As an educator and knowledge worker, she is an overseer of the same racist, misogynistic, and homophobic systems that terrorize her. Yet, she musters the courage to kill Kurtz, a primordial vision of white terror. She is Black and queer and fat and angry and chill and witty and joyful and depressed and lovely and flawed and an (im)perfect dagger to the heart of white supremacist capitalism"--
Subjects: Poetry.; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Power (Social sciences); Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Racism; Discrimination; Poetry.; Racism.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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