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Des Jardins uncovers the stories of prominent women scientists – from Rachel Carson to Jane Goodall to the women of the Manhattan Project—to explore how women often approach science differently than men. She offers insight into the barriers women in science face as well as their successes, and shows how socially defined gender roles have shaped scientific inquiry.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. p. vii
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  1. Introduction: Through the Lives of Women Scientists
  2. pp. 1-10
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  1. I. Assistants, Housekeepers, and Interchangeable Parts: Women Scientists and Professionalization,1880–1940
  2. pp. 11-22
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  1. 1. Madame Curie’s American Tours: Women and Science in the 1920s
  2. pp. 23-52
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  1. 2. Making Science Domestic and Domesticity Scientific: The Ambiguous Life and Ambidextrous Work of Lillian Gilbreth
  2. pp. 53-87
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  1. 3. To Embrace or Decline Marriage and Family:Annie Jump Cannon and the Women of the Harvard Observatory, 1880–1940
  2. pp. 9688-114
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  1. II. The Cult of Masculinity in the Age of Heroic Science,1941–1962
  2. pp. 117-129
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  1. 4. Those Science Made Invisible:Finding the Women of the Manhattan Project [Includes Cover Plates]
  2. pp. 130-156
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  1. 5. Maria Goeppert Mayer and Rosalind Franklin: The Politics of Partners and Prizes in the Heroic Age of Science
  2. pp. 157-200
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  1. III. American Women and Science in Transition,1962–
  2. pp. 201-218
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  1. 6. Generational Divides: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Evelyn Fox Keller, Barbara McClintock, and Feminism after 1963
  2. pp. 219-252
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  1. 7. The Lady Trimates and Feminist Science?: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birut
  2. pp. 253-284
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  1. Conclusion: Apes, Corn, and Silent Springs: A Women’s Tradition of Science?
  2. pp. 285-294
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. 295-296
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 297-312
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