| Introduction: Through the Lives of Women Scientists. |
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| I. Assistants, Housekeepers, and Interchangeable Parts: Women Scientists and Professionalisation, 1880-1940 |
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1. Madame Curie's American Tours: Women and Science in the 1920's |
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2. Making Science Domestic and Domesticity Scientific: The Ambiguous Life and Ambidextrous Work of Lillian Gilbreth |
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3. To Embrace or Decline Marriage and Family: Annie Jump Cannon and the Women of the Harvard Observatory, 1880-1940 |
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| II. The Cult of Masculinity in the Age of Heroic Science, 1941-1962 |
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4. Those Science Made Invisible: Finding the Women of the Manhattan Project |
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5. Maria Goeppert Mayer and Rosalind Franklin: The Politics of Partners and Prizes in the Heroic Age of Science |
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| III. American Women and Science in Transition, 1962- |
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6. Generational Divides: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Evelyn Fox Keller, Barbara McClintock, and Feminism after 1963 |
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7. The Lady Trimates and Feminist Science?: Jane Goodall, Dian Fosses and Biruté Galdikas |
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| Conclusion: Apes, Corn, and Silent Springs: A Women's Tradition of Science? |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Index. |
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