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Rise of the rocket girls : the women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to mars / by Holt, Nathalia,1980-author.(CARDINAL)406284;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-323) and index.A door opens -- Mobilization -- Past is prologue -- The double V -- Manifest destiny -- War birds -- The duration -- Those who moved forward -- Breaking the barriers -- Home by the sea -- The area rule -- Serendipity -- Turbulence -- Angle of attack -- Young, gifted, and black -- What a difference a day makes -- Outer space -- With all deliberate speed -- Model behavior -- Degrees of freedom -- Out of the past, the future -- America is for everybody -- To boldly goJanuary 1958: Launch day -- Up, up, and away -- Headed west -- Rockets rising -- Miss Guided Missile -- Holding back -- Ninety days and ninety minutes -- Moonglow -- Analog overlords -- Planetary pull -- The last queen of outer space -- Men are from Mars -- Look like a girlIn the 1940s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians, it recruited an elite group of young women -- known as human computers -- who, with only pencil, paper, and brain power, helped bring about America's first ballistic missiles. But their hearts lay in the dream of space exploration, and when JPL became part of NASA, the computers helped send the first probes to the moon. Later, through their efforts, we launched the ships that showed us the contours of our solar system. For the first time, Nathalia Holt tells the stories of these women, who charted a course not only for the future of space exploration but also for the prospects of female scientists. Based on extensive research and interviews with the living members of the team, Rise of the Rocket Girls illuminates the role of women in science, both where we've been and the far reaches of space to which we're heading1040L
Subjects: Biographies.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.); Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.); Memoirs and biographies.; African American authors.; African American interest.; African American mathematicians; African American women; African Americans; Astronautics; Astronauts; Astronauts; Autobiographies.; Mathematicians; Race discrimination.; Race discrimination; Rocketry; Sexism.; Space race.; Women computer programmers; Women computer programmers; Women in computer science; Women mathematicians; Women mathematicians; Women mathematicians; Women; Biography.; Sexism.; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 51 / Total copies: 52
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Already Toast: Caregiving and burnout in America [sound recording] / by Washington, Kate.; Scott, Siiri;
Read by Siiri Scott.Already Toast Brad's cancer quickly turned aggressive, necessitating a stem-cell transplant that triggered a massive infection, robbing him of his eyesight and nearly of his life. Kate acted as his full-time aide to keep him alive, coordinating his treatments, making doctors' appointments, calling insurance companies, filling dozens of prescriptions, cleaning commodes, administering IV drugs. She became so burned out that, when she took an online quiz on caregiver self-care, her result cheerily declared: "You're already toast!" Through it all she felt profoundly alone, but, as she later learned, she was in fact one of millions: an invisible army of family caregivers working every day in America, their unpaid labor keeping our troubled healthcare system afloat. Because our culture both romanticizes and erases the realities of care work, few caregivers have shared their stories publicly. As the baby-boom generation ages, the number of family caregivers will continue to grow. Readable, relatable, timely, and often raw, Already Toast--with its clear call for paying and supporting family caregivers--is a crucial intervention in that conversation, bringing together personal experience with deep research to give voice to those tasked with the overlooked, vital work of caring for the seriously ill.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Biography.; Aging parents; Alzheimer's disease; Alzheimer's disease; Alzheimer's disease; Biography.; Burn out (Psychology); Cancer; Cancer; Caregivers; Caregivers; Caregivers; Dementia; Dementia; Dementia; Dementia; Dementia; Diseases; Lewy body dementia.; Medical care; Memory disorders in old age.; Mental health; Old age; Older people; Parkinson's disease.; Sexism; Social Sciences.; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Pain and prejudice : how the medical system ignores women--and what we can do about it / by Jackson, Gabrielle,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Repeat after me, vulva: the female reproductive system -- 'Whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean': menstruation and menopause -- From clitoridectomy to the talking cure: a history of hysteria -- Neither Madonna nor whore: rethinking female sexuality -- It's the culture, stupid: understanding modern medical practice -- 'The pain that can't be seen': a new appreciation of women's pain -- Time to ditch the bikini: the women's health conditions you never hear about -- 'Ripe for disruption': why medical science must improve its knowledge of women -- Epilogue: Covid-19 and chronic pain -- Afterword.
Subjects: Women; Women's health services.; Sexism in medicine.; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Flash count diary : menopause and the vindication of natural life / by Steinke, Darcey,author.(CARDINAL)768375;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226).Night on fire -- Free Lolita -- The animals -- Mind at the end of its tether -- Demigirl in kemmering -- Lessons in demonology -- The old monkey -- Nocturnal hunter -- Hole in my heart -- The whale wins -- Home waters -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.By weaving together her personal story with philosophy, science, art, and literature, the author provides an exploration into aspects of menopause that have rarely been written about, including the changing gender landscape that reduced levels of hormones brings, the actualities of transforming desires, and the realities of prejudice against older women.
Subjects: Steinke, Darcey.; Menopause.; Menopause; Women; Sexism.; Women.; Womyn.; Sexism.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Queen of physics : how Wu Chien Shiung helped unlock the secrets of the atom / by Robeson, Teresa,1964-author.(CARDINAL)816171; Huang, Rebecca,illustrator.(CARDINAL)803095;
Includes bibliographical references."When Wu Chien Shiung was born in China 100 years ago, girls did not attend school. But her parents named their daughter "Courageous Hero" and encouraged her love of science. This biography follows Wu as she battles sexism at home and racism in the United States of America to become what Newsweek magazine called the "Queen of Physics" for her work on how atoms split."--5 & up.K to 3.960L960LAccelerated Reader ARAsian/Pacific American Award: Picture Book Winner, 2020.
Subjects: Biographies.; Picture books.; Wu, C. S. (Chien-shiung), 1912-1997; Chinese Americans; Nuclear physicists; Women physicists;
Available copies: 28 / Total copies: 29
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Unmasking AI : my mission to protect what is human in a world of machines / by Buolamwini, Joy,author.(CARDINAL)878895;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-308)."Dr. Joy Buolamwini is the self-described "Poet of Code" who has had a lifelong passion for computer science, engineering, and art--disciplines that, she felt, pushed the boundaries of reality. After tinkering with robotics as a high school student in Tennessee, to developing mobile apps in Zambia as a Fulbright fellow, Buolamwini eventually found herself at MIT. As a graduate student at the "Future Factory," Buolamwini's groundbreaking research revealed that AI systems--from leading tech companies--were consistently failing on non-male, non-white bodies. In Unmasking AI, Buolamwini goes beyond the news headlines about racism, colorism, and sexism in Big Tech to tell the remarkable story of how she uncovered what she calls "the coded gaze"-evidence of racial and gender bias in tech-and galvanized the movement to prevent AI harms by founding the Algorithmic Justice League. Applying an intersectional lens to both tech industry and research sector, Buolamwini shows how race, gender, and ability bias can overlap and render broad swaths of humanity vulnerable in our AI-dependent world. Computers, she reminds us, are reflections of both the aspirations and the limitations of the people who create them"--
Subjects: Buolamwini, Joy.; Artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence; Discrimination in science.; Sex discrimination in science.;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 16
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Letter to a young female physician : notes from a medical life / by Koven, Suzanne,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300).Introduction: Letter to a young female physician -- Risk factors -- Prerequisites -- Admissions -- Clinical skills -- Mnemonics -- We have a body -- Things shameful to be spoken of -- Lineage -- The last three pounds -- Mom at bedside, appears calm -- Curbsiding -- An inherited condition -- The disease of the little paper -- The noncompliant patient, reconsidered -- The hateful patient -- The doctor's new dilemma -- Off the charts -- Head and shoulder -- Sequelae -- Science and kindness -- Bury me in something warm -- Extension -- Mixed emotions -- They call us and we go -- Epilogue: Women in STEM."A poignant, funny, personal exploration of authenticity in work and life by a woman doctor. In 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by women doctors, including her own personal struggle with "imposter syndrome"-a long-held, secret belief that she was not smart enough or good enough to be a "real" doctor. Accessed nearly 300,000 times by readers around the world, Koven's "Letter to a Young Female Physician" has evolved into a work that reflects on her career in medicine, in which women still encounter sexism, pay inequity, and harassment. Koven tells engaging stories about her pregnancy during a grueling residency in the AIDS era; the illnesses of her son and parents during which her roles as a doctor, mother, and daughter converged; and the twilight of her career during the COVID-19 pandemic. Letter to a Young Female Physician offers an indelible eyewitness account from a doctor, mother, wife, daughter, teacher, and writer that will encourage readers to embrace their own imperfect selves"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Koven, Suzanne.; Women physicians; Physicians; Medicine; Physician and patient; Sexism in medicine; Sex discrimination in medicine;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Doing harm : the truth about how bad medicine and lazy science leave women dismissed, misdiagnosed, and sick / by Dusenbery, Maya,author.(CARDINAL)416641;
Includes bibliographical references."In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the editorial director of Feministing.com, reveals how gender bias infects every level of medicine and healthcare today--leading to inadequate, inappropriate, and even dangerous treatment that threatens women's lives and well-being. Modern medicine is failing women. Half of all American women suffer from at least one chronic health condition--from autoimmune disorders and asthma to depression and Alzheimer's disease--and the numbers are increasing. A wealth of research has revealed that women often exhibit different symptoms than their male counterparts, suffer disproportionately from many debilitating conditions, and may react differently to prescription drugs and other therapies. Yet more thantwenty years after the law decreed that women be included in all health-related research and drug development, doctors are still operating with a lingering knowledge gap when it comes to women's health. And they're not immune to unconscious biases and stereotypes that can undermine the doctor-patient relationship. The consequences can be catastrophic: Too often, women are misdiagnosed, poorly treated, and find their complaints dismissed as "just stress" or "all in your head." Meanwhile, they're getting sicker. Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with experts within and outside the medical establishment, and personal stories from regular women to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at how sexism in medicine harms women today. In addition to offering a clear-eyed explanation of the root causes of this insidious and entrenched bias and laying out its effects, she suggests concrete steps we can take to cure it. Eye-opening and long-overdue, Doing Harm is an empowering call to action for health care providers and all women"--
Subjects: Health education.; Sexism in medicine.; Women; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The disordered cosmos : a journey into dark matter, spacetime, and dreams deferred / by Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is one of the leading physicists of her generation, at work on the origins of spacetime at the intersection of particle physics and astrophysics. She is also one of the fewer than one hundred Black women to earn a PhD in physics. In The Disordered Cosmos, Prescod-Weinstein shares with readers her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter - all with a new spin and rhythm informed by pop culture, hip hop, politics, and Star Trek. Prescod-Weinstein's vision of the cosmos is vibrant, inclusive and buoyantly non-traditional. As she makes clear, what we know about the universe won't be complete until we learn to think beyond the limitations of white-dominated science. Science, like most fields, is set up for men to succeed, and is rife with racism, sexism, and shortsightedness as a result. But as Prescod-Weinstein makes brilliantly clear, we all have a right to know the night sky. By welcoming the insights of those who have been left out for too long, we expand our understanding of the universe and our place in it. The Disordered Cosmos is a vision for a world without prejudice that allows everyone to view the wonders of the universe through the same starry eyes"--
Subjects: Essays.; Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda.; Particles (Nuclear physics); Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; African Americans; Feminist theory.; Science; African American women physicists; Feminist theory.;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 18
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Lessons in chemistry [large print] / by Garmus, Bonnie,author.(CARDINAL)870083;
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with--of all things--her mind. True chemistry results. Like science, though, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother but also the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show, Supper at Six. Elizabeth's unusual approach to cooking ("combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride") proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn't just teaching women to cook. She's daring them to change the status quo.
Subjects: Large print books.; Historical fiction.; Fiction.; Novels.; Women scientists; Single mothers; Television cooking shows; Sex role; Sexism; Nineteen sixties; Gender roles.; Sexism.;
Available copies: 67 / Total copies: 86
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