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A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science / by Colwell, Rita R.,1934-author.; McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch,author.(CARDINAL)373334;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-254) and index.A memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have taken to bypass the problem, and how to fix the system.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Colwell, Rita R., 1934-; Scientists; Women microbiologists; Sexism in science.; Women in science.; Sex discrimination in science.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Starstruck : a memoir of astrophysics and finding light in the dark / by Nance, Sarafina,author.(CARDINAL)857541;
"In a beautifully written, science-packed debut memoir, Egyptian-American astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance shares her personal story of resilience and liberation by grounding herself in her lifelong love of the stars. As a child, Sarafina El-Badry Nance spent nearly every evening with her father gazing up at the flickering stars and pondering what secrets the night sky held. She dreamt of becoming an astronomer from the age of five, but it wasn't long before she was told, both explicitly and implicitly, that girls just weren't cut out for math and science. In Starstruck, Sarafina captures the wonders of the universe and traces more earthbound obstacles--of misogyny and racism, abuse and intergenerational trauma, anxiety and self-doubt, cancer diagnoses and recovery--she faced along the way. The strategies and mindset Sarafina developed to thrive in a space that is, by design, not for women and especially not for women of color, are not only applicable to her career in astrophysics but directly carry over into other areas of life. Honest and empowering, Starstruck sits at the intersection of the study of our cosmos--itself constantly changing-and the messy and transformative experience of pursuing one's passion through life's inevitable challenges"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Nance, Sarafina.; Astrophysicists; Women astronomers; Egyptian American women; Sexism in science;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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Off with her head : three thousand years of demonizing women in power / by Herman, Eleanor,1960-author.(CARDINAL)468180;
Includes bibliographical references.Imagine Donald Trump as a woman, called Donna. Would Donna Trump have been viewed as blunt, honest, and refreshing? Would she have won the election? Imagine Hillary Clinton as a man. Howard Clinton says and does the exact same things as Hillary. Would Howard Clinton have been portrayed in a thousand pinterest images as a witch, stirring a cauldron or riding a broomstick? Would he have been called a bitch on countless T-shirts? Would his thoughtful, circumspect answers to media questions have been seen as inauthenticity, secretiveness, and untrustworthiness? There is a particular kind of rage--let's call it unadulterated bloodlust--usually reserved for women, especially women in power or vying for it. From the ancient world, through the European Renaissance, up to the most recent U.S. elections, the misogynist's handbook, as Eleanor Herman calls it, has been wielded to put uppity women in their place. In a story that is shocking, eye-opening, and a powerful force for change, Eleanor Herman's signature wit and humor explores the patterns that have been operating for more than three thousand years--and are still operating today--against powerful women across the globe, including Cleopatra, Anne Boleyn, Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, and more. Each chapter analyzes a tried-and-true misogynistic method to keep women down, including: Her overweening ambition, Why doesn't she do something about her hair?, The dangers of female hormones, The alarming shrillness of her voice, The mysterious unlikability of female candidates, She's a bitch and other animals, She's a witch and other monsters, and Her sexual depravity. Herman ends the book by looking forward, examining ways to rip up the misogynist's handbook once and for all.
Subjects: Leadership in women.; Power (Social sciences); Feminism.; Sexism.; Women; Feminism.; Women's movement.; Sexism.; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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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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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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The woman who split the atom [sound recording] : the life of Lise Meitner / by Moss, Marissa,author.(CARDINAL)769728; Rustin, Sandy,narrator.;
Narrated by Sandy Rustin.The gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission. As a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early twentieth century, Lise Meitner had to fight for an education, a job, and equal treatment in her field. Meitner made groundbreaking strides in the study of radiation, but when Hitler came to power in Germany, she had to face not only sexism but life-threatening anti-Semitism as well. Nevertheless, she persevered and one day made a discovery that rocked the world: the splitting of the atom. While her male lab partner was awarded a Nobel Prize for the achievement, the committee refused to credit her.Suddenly, the race to build the atomic bomb was on-although Meitner, a pacifist, was horrified to be associated with such a weapon. "A physicist who never lost her humanity," Meitner wanted only to figure out how the world works.The Woman Who Split the Atom is a fascinating look at Meitner's fierce passion, integrity, and her lifelong struggle to have her contributions to physics recognized.
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Biographies.; Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968; Physicists; Women physicists; Nuclear fission; Jewish women; Antisemitism; Feminism and antisemitism; Sexism in science; Pacifism;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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God against the gods [videorecording] : the history of monotheism and polytheism / by Garland, Robert,1947-lecturer.(CARDINAL)293045; Teaching Company,production company,publisher.(CARDINAL)349444;
Lecturer: Robert Garland, PhD."This course divides religion into monotheism (the belief in one god) and polytheism (the belief in many gods), but you don’t have to investigate too deeply to discover the line between these belief systems is not a simple either/or. Taught by acclaimed Professor Robert Garland of Colgate University, these 12 thought-provoking lectures introduce you to the world of comparative religion, giving you insights into a variety of religious expressions and human cultures."--Publisher's website.DVD.
Subjects: Myths.; Lectures.; Educational films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Monotheism; Polytheism; Reformation.; Religion and science; Women and religion.; Sexism in religion.; Mythology, Greek.; Mythology, Roman.; Mythology, Middle Eastern.; Creation; Goddesses.; Gods.; Civilization, Ancient.;
Available copies: 0 / 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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Women & power : a manifesto / by Beard, Mary,1955-author.(CARDINAL)266464; Beard, Mary,1955-Public voice of women.; Beard, Mary,1955-Women in power.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- The public voice of women -- Women in power -- Afterword -- References and further reading -- Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Index -- A note on the cover.""At long last, Mary Beard has decided to address in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over. Few, sadly, are more experienced with this kind of hateful barrage than Beard herself, who has been subjected to a whole onslaught of criticism online, in response to her articles and public speeches. In [this book], Beard presents her most powerful statement yet, tracing the origins of misogyny to their ancient roots. In two provocative essays, Beard connects the past to the present as only she can, examining the pitfalls of gender and the ways that history has mistreated powerful women since time immemorial. As far back as Homer's Odyssey, Beard shows, women have been prohibited from leadership roles in civic life, public speech historically being defined as inherently male. There is no clearer example than Odysseus' wife, Penelope, who seals her lips and proceeds upstairs when told to shut up by Telemachus, her son. Other women who have dared to open their mouths in public or, against all odds, gained power--from would-be Roman orators, though the great queen Elizabeth I--have been treated as 'freakish androgynes, ' attacked or punished for their courage--regarded with suspicion at best, contempt at worst. From Medusa to Philomela (whose tongue was cut out), from Hillary Clinton to Elizabeth Warren (who was told to sit down), Beard draws endlessly illuminating parallels between our cultural assumptions about women's relationship to power--and how powerful women provide a necessary example for all women who must resist being vacuumed into a male template. With personal reflections on her own experiences with sexism, Beard asks: If women aren't perceived to be within the structure of power, isn't it power itself we need to redefine? And how many more centuries should we be expected to wait?"Two essays connect the past with the present, tracing the history of misogyny to its ancient roots and examining the pitfalls of gender.
Subjects: Essays.; Women; Leadership in women.; Women; Feminism.; Women; Sexism.; Power (Social sciences); Women.; Womyn.; Feminism.; Women's movement.; Sexism.;
Available copies: 23 / Total copies: 27
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The destruction of Hillary Clinton / by Bordo, Susan,1947-author.(CARDINAL)756729;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-233) and index.Timeline of Key Events -- 1. Dilemmas of the Female Politician -- 2. The "Woman Card" Moves to the Bottom of the Deck -- 3. Bernie Sanders and the "Millennials" -- 4. "Untrustworthy Hillary" -- 5. Damned Emails -- 6. A Tale of Two Conventions, and One Hot Mic -- 7. Coup d'Etat -- Epilogue."A play-by-play of the political forces (both right and left) and media culture that vilified Hillary Clinton during her 2016 Presidential campaign, from cultural critic and feminist scholar Susan Bordo. The Destruction of Hillary Clintonis an answer to the question we've all been asking: How did an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced, and admired candidate--whose victory would have been as historic as Barack Obama's--come to be seen as a tool of the establishment, a chronic liar, and a talentlesspolitician? In this masterful narrative of the 2016 campaign year, Susan Bordo unpacks the right-wing assault on Clinton and her reputation, the way the left provoked the suspicion and indifference of a younger generation, and the unprecedented influenceof the media. Urgent, insightful, and engrossing,The Destruction of Hillary Clinton is an essential guide to understanding the most controversial presidential election in American history"--
Subjects: Clinton, Hillary Rodham; Women presidential candidates; Presidential candidates; Presidents; Women; Right and left (Political science); Sexism in political culture; Mass media; Public opinion; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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