Women succeeding in the sciences
Subtitle: theories and practices across disciplines
By: edited by Jody Bart
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: West Lafayette, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780585328812
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: Women in science; Science; Study and teaching; Women; Education; Femmes dans les sciences; Sciences; Étude et enseignement; Femmes; Éducation; SCIENCE; Study & Teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Helen Brooke Taussig (1898-1986): A Biography of Success  -- Laura Malloy; title: Frankenstein's Native  -- Elizabeth Stassinos; title: Women Becoming Mathematicians: Constructing a Professional Identity in Post-World War II America  -- Margaret A.M. Murray; title: Strategies for Teaching "Female-Friendly" Science to Women: Using History and Research to Guide Instruction  -- Valerie N. Morphew; title: Successful Strategies for Teaching Math to College Women  -- Ruth O'Keefe; title: Factors That Increase Persistence of Female Undergraduate Science Students  -- Michelle Smoot Hyde, Julie Gess-Newsome; title: Perspectives from a Female Undergraduate Student on Successfully Integrating Learning and Researching Science with Leading Organic Chemistry Workshops  -- Nermana Ligata, Madeline Adamczeski; title: A Peer Mentoring Program for Underrepresented Students in the Sciences  -- Casey Clark, Ileana Howard, Sarah E. Lazare, Doreen A. Weinberger; title: Gender Bias in Biological Theory Formation  -- Colleen M. Belk; title: Defending Feminist Territory in the Science Wars  -- Maureen Linker; title: Strong Objectivity and the Language of Science  -- Andrea Nye; title: Feminist Theories of Knowledge: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly  -- Jody Bart; title: Gender and Physical Science: A Hard Look at a Hard Science  -- Amy Bug; title: Inventing the Future: Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics at Purdue University Calumet -- Barbara Mania-Farnell, Colette Morrow.