Marie Curie, Lillian Gilbreth, Rosalyn Yalow, Jane Goodall, Barbara McClintock, Rachel Carson—these awesome life stories reveal the complex negotiation of gender in science.
Torn between her family and her ambitions, astronomer Jillian Greer leaves her husband and her two children for ten days in the Manistee National Forest to see if she can find her way back to the stars.
Gornick explores the social and professional lives of women in science. This expanded edition includes a new introduction and updated interviews with some of the original 100 women scientists featured.
NEA Grant will help fund the digitization of 15 Feminist Press classics, and the publication of three extraordinary literary works: Savage Coast by Muriel Rukeyser, Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir by Shahrnush Parsipur, and The Silent Woman by Monika Zgustova.