July CATWoman: Women in Science
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1LibraryCin
July CATWoman: Women in Science
"Women scientists: standing: Miss Nellie A. Brown; L to R: Miss Lucia McCollock, Miss Mary K. Bryan, Miss Florence Hedges, The women scientists make cultures of the parasites, ca. 1910-20" by pingnews.com is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/?ref=openverse.
I wasn’t necessarily expecting anything in wikipedia about “women in science”, but what do you know!? Here’s some info I found there:
“The presence of women in science spans the earliest times of the history of science wherein they have made significant contributions. Historians with an interest in gender and science have researched the scientific endeavors and accomplishments of women, the barriers they have faced, and the strategies implemented to have their work peer-reviewed and accepted in major scientific journals and other publications. The historical, critical, and sociological study of these issues has become an academic discipline in its own right.
The involvement of women in medicine occurred in several early western civilizations, and the study of natural philosophy in ancient Greece was open to women. Women contributed to the proto-science of alchemy in the first or second centuries AD. During the Middle Ages, religious convents were an important place of education for women, and some of these communities provided opportunities for women to contribute to scholarly research. The 11th century saw the emergence of the first universities; women were, for the most part, excluded from university education. Outside academia, botany was the science that benefitted most from contributions of women in early modern times. The attitude toward educating women in medical fields appears to have been more liberal in Italy than in other places. The first known woman to earn a university chair in a scientific field of studies was eighteenth-century Italian scientist Laura Bassi.
Gender roles were largely deterministic in the eighteenth century and women made substantial advances in science. During the nineteenth century, women were excluded from most formal scientific education, but they began to be admitted into learned societies during this period. In the later nineteenth century, the rise of the women's college provided jobs for women scientists and opportunities for education.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_science
My suggestions are just the few I’ve read. I thought I’d have read more, but I guess not. But I’m thinking any science field, including medicine, would fit. Histories, biographies, feel free to read fiction (though I think all my suggestions are non-), anything you can come up with.
Some Suggestions:
The Fossil Hunter / Shelley Emling
Lab Girl / Hope Jahren
Hidden Figures / Margot Lee Shetterly
Women in White Coats / Olivia Campbell
Don’t forget to post to the wiki: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/CATWoman_2022#July:_Women_in_Science_.28...
"Women scientists: standing: Miss Nellie A. Brown; L to R: Miss Lucia McCollock, Miss Mary K. Bryan, Miss Florence Hedges, The women scientists make cultures of the parasites, ca. 1910-20" by pingnews.com is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/?ref=openverse.
I wasn’t necessarily expecting anything in wikipedia about “women in science”, but what do you know!? Here’s some info I found there:
“The presence of women in science spans the earliest times of the history of science wherein they have made significant contributions. Historians with an interest in gender and science have researched the scientific endeavors and accomplishments of women, the barriers they have faced, and the strategies implemented to have their work peer-reviewed and accepted in major scientific journals and other publications. The historical, critical, and sociological study of these issues has become an academic discipline in its own right.
The involvement of women in medicine occurred in several early western civilizations, and the study of natural philosophy in ancient Greece was open to women. Women contributed to the proto-science of alchemy in the first or second centuries AD. During the Middle Ages, religious convents were an important place of education for women, and some of these communities provided opportunities for women to contribute to scholarly research. The 11th century saw the emergence of the first universities; women were, for the most part, excluded from university education. Outside academia, botany was the science that benefitted most from contributions of women in early modern times. The attitude toward educating women in medical fields appears to have been more liberal in Italy than in other places. The first known woman to earn a university chair in a scientific field of studies was eighteenth-century Italian scientist Laura Bassi.
Gender roles were largely deterministic in the eighteenth century and women made substantial advances in science. During the nineteenth century, women were excluded from most formal scientific education, but they began to be admitted into learned societies during this period. In the later nineteenth century, the rise of the women's college provided jobs for women scientists and opportunities for education.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_science
My suggestions are just the few I’ve read. I thought I’d have read more, but I guess not. But I’m thinking any science field, including medicine, would fit. Histories, biographies, feel free to read fiction (though I think all my suggestions are non-), anything you can come up with.
Some Suggestions:
The Fossil Hunter / Shelley Emling
Lab Girl / Hope Jahren
Hidden Figures / Margot Lee Shetterly
Women in White Coats / Olivia Campbell
Don’t forget to post to the wiki: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/CATWoman_2022#July:_Women_in_Science_.28...
2Robertgreaves
I recently read The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel about women working in astronomy from the late 19th century to WWII, which would fit here.
I may read Traces by Patricia Wiltshire, the memoirs of a forensic scientist. Another possibility is Your Voice Speaks Volumes by Jane Setter, a linguist, though I think it is more about the science than about her position as a woman in science.
I may read Traces by Patricia Wiltshire, the memoirs of a forensic scientist. Another possibility is Your Voice Speaks Volumes by Jane Setter, a linguist, though I think it is more about the science than about her position as a woman in science.
3Kristelh
I would recommend Radioactive by Lauren Redniss. A graphic NF work about Marie Curie.
4clue
I'll probably read Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
5dudes22
Our book club read Visionary Women by Andrea Barnet and liked it. It includes Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters.
I think I'll read Alex and Me by Irene M Pepperberg a scientist who raised a Parrot for over 30 years and the discoveries she made about birds (or at least parrots).
I think I'll read Alex and Me by Irene M Pepperberg a scientist who raised a Parrot for over 30 years and the discoveries she made about birds (or at least parrots).
6LibraryCin
>5 dudes22: i loved alex and me!
7beebeereads
I've had Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall on my list this year. I'll hope to get to it this month. It is a memoir of her work and her life insights.
8DeltaQueen50
I am planning on reading Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy.
9LibraryCin
A couple of possibilities for me:
- Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo / Birute M.F. Galdikas
- The Fated Sky / Mary Robinette Kowal
- Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo / Birute M.F. Galdikas
- The Fated Sky / Mary Robinette Kowal
10Tess_W
I read Radioactive about Marie (and Pierre, to some extent) Curie by Lauren Redniss a few months ago and can highly recommend it.
I will probably read Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars Nathalia Holt.
I will probably read Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars Nathalia Holt.
11sallylou61
I'm planning to read The Secret History of Home Economics by Danielle Dreilinger for which cbl_tn wrote a favorable review last year.
12Robertgreaves
Riveted_Reader_Melissa on Litsy (I don't know if she is on LT) linked to this article on Tor.com about women scientists in 1990s movies https://www.tor.com/2022/06/09/the-awesome-women-scientists-of-1990s-sff/
13VivienneR
I have Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel that I hope to read for this.
ETA I've read it before but it's a book that deserves a reread.
ETA I've read it before but it's a book that deserves a reread.
14JayneCM
I've already snuck my read in early as it was due back at the library - Her Hidden Genius by Marie Benedict.
15VivienneR
>13 VivienneR: I'm not happy with this choice, for although Sobel is a scientific writer, the subject is male. Still looking…
16sallylou61
>15 VivienneR:. If you like Ms. Sobel's writing, she also wrote The Glass Universe which is about women working in astronomy >2 Robertgreaves:.
17Robertgreaves
>15 VivienneR: >16 sallylou61: also Galileo's Daughter may also be considered at least peripherally relevant. In fact I might re-read it myself.
18susanna.fraser
I just finished The Beauty in Breaking, a quite beautiful memoir by an ER doctor.
19witchyrichy
I am planning to read Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldmith. Been on the shelf for a long time and I am looking forward to learning more about this woman.
20dudes22
I've finished Alex and Me by Irene M Pepperberg a scientist who studied language and communication with her Grey parrot Alex.
21witchyrichy
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22VivienneR
>16 sallylou61: & >17 Robertgreaves: Thank you so much for the tips! I have read Galileo's Daughter but still own it so that's a possibility. I've also been thinking of The Glass Universe and I've downloaded some ebooks that might provide a good candidate.
23NinieB
I read John Wyndham's novel Trouble with Lichen, in which a woman scientist features prominently.
24Robertgreaves
>23 NinieB: Oh, that's on my Internet Archive TBR list. Maybe I will move it further up
25soffitta1
I read Invisible Women - fascinating. I will keep it to fip back into.
26susanna.fraser
August is up: https://www.librarything.com/topic/342901
27VivienneR
I read The First Human: the race to discover our earliest ancestors by Ann Gibbons.
As the subtitle indicates, this was indeed a race. One wonders what these men and women might have achieved if they had worked together instead of with intense rivalries. The search to solve the mystery of human evolution is a fascinating subject and science writer Gibbons' writing retains that engrossing quality while being easily understood. Although discoveries continue and the picture of human evolution is becoming clearer, there is still no definitive answer.
As the subtitle indicates, this was indeed a race. One wonders what these men and women might have achieved if they had worked together instead of with intense rivalries. The search to solve the mystery of human evolution is a fascinating subject and science writer Gibbons' writing retains that engrossing quality while being easily understood. Although discoveries continue and the picture of human evolution is becoming clearer, there is still no definitive answer.
28Robertgreaves
COMPLETED Your Voice Speaks Volumes by Jane Setter (linquistics)
29DeltaQueen50
I have completed my read of Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy.
30sallylou61
I've finished reading The Secret History of Home Economics by Danielle Dreilinger, and enjoyed it.
31marell
I really liked this YA, illustrated book: Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky.
32LibraryCin
I'm currently about half way through two books for this one. I was hoping to finish both this (long) weekend. I should be able to finish one, anyway. I will post them both, anyway, once I'm done.
33LibraryCin
Got one of my two done on the 30th... hope to finish the other today, but we'll see!
The Fated Sky / Mary Robinette Kowal
4 stars
This is the second in the “Lady Astronaut” series. I am trying to write the summary so as not to spoil the first book. It’s 1961 and astronauts are training to go to Mars. When the celebrity calculator, Elma, somewhat reluctantly (it’s hard to leave her husband for at least 3 years) agrees to go on the mission (even though others have already been training for months), she didn’t realize she would be taking another’s place. That person is her Taiwanese friend Helen. There are groups on Earth also protesting the mission.
I liked this better than the first one (I’m rating it higher, anyway). It’s been a while since I read the first, but I think there were some parts where I was bored, I lost interest. That did not happen at all in this one. I liked (most of) the characters and even the ones I didn’t like made for an interesting story. There is also a lot of prejudices, racism, and sexism, along with a lot of conflict, but it’s a tight space shared for a long time. I really liked this one
The Fated Sky / Mary Robinette Kowal
4 stars
This is the second in the “Lady Astronaut” series. I am trying to write the summary so as not to spoil the first book. It’s 1961 and astronauts are training to go to Mars. When the celebrity calculator, Elma, somewhat reluctantly (it’s hard to leave her husband for at least 3 years) agrees to go on the mission (even though others have already been training for months), she didn’t realize she would be taking another’s place. That person is her Taiwanese friend Helen. There are groups on Earth also protesting the mission.
I liked this better than the first one (I’m rating it higher, anyway). It’s been a while since I read the first, but I think there were some parts where I was bored, I lost interest. That did not happen at all in this one. I liked (most of) the characters and even the ones I didn’t like made for an interesting story. There is also a lot of prejudices, racism, and sexism, along with a lot of conflict, but it’s a tight space shared for a long time. I really liked this one
34LibraryCin
Finished this a few days ago. Read about 1/2 in July and 1/2 in August, but was meant to be read for this CATWoman
Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo / Birute Galdikas
4 stars
Birute Galdikas is the Jane Goodall of orangutans. Like with Jane (but 10 or 11 years later), Birute was recruited by Louis Leakey to do field work. So in 1971, Birute and her husband Rod headed to Borneo to study orangutans. Once they arrived, they found that – although illegal – people also kept orangutans as pets. Birute decided immediately that she wanted to also start a sort of nursery/sanctuary/rehab where these once-captive orangutans (mostly infants) could come, then head back to the wild when they were ready. And as with all great apes, the habitat is disappearing around them, making it very difficult for them to survive, so Birute and Rod also tried to get help creating and enforcing the boundaries of the reserve that held many of the orangutans.
The book was published in 1995 and at that time, Birute was still in Borneo doing her orangutan studies. The book also goes into detail about Birute’s personal life – her marriage(s) and children. I’ve read lots about Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, but except for one graphic novel that included all three, this is the first I’ve read about Birute. Her book alternates chapters between some of the orangutans and the other topics in the book (though, of course, they all overlap). Very good book, but know that there is a lot more to this one than “just” the animals.
Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo / Birute Galdikas
4 stars
Birute Galdikas is the Jane Goodall of orangutans. Like with Jane (but 10 or 11 years later), Birute was recruited by Louis Leakey to do field work. So in 1971, Birute and her husband Rod headed to Borneo to study orangutans. Once they arrived, they found that – although illegal – people also kept orangutans as pets. Birute decided immediately that she wanted to also start a sort of nursery/sanctuary/rehab where these once-captive orangutans (mostly infants) could come, then head back to the wild when they were ready. And as with all great apes, the habitat is disappearing around them, making it very difficult for them to survive, so Birute and Rod also tried to get help creating and enforcing the boundaries of the reserve that held many of the orangutans.
The book was published in 1995 and at that time, Birute was still in Borneo doing her orangutan studies. The book also goes into detail about Birute’s personal life – her marriage(s) and children. I’ve read lots about Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, but except for one graphic novel that included all three, this is the first I’ve read about Birute. Her book alternates chapters between some of the orangutans and the other topics in the book (though, of course, they all overlap). Very good book, but know that there is a lot more to this one than “just” the animals.
