Patently Female

Patently Female

From AZT to TV Dinners, Stories of Women Inventors and Their Breakthrough Ideas

Vare, Ethlie Ann; Ptacek, Greg

John Wiley & Sons Inc

12/2001

240

Dura

Inglês

9780471023340

15 a 20 dias

516

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Foreword by Ruth Handler, Inventor of the Barbie Doll.

Preface by Janet L. Rideout, Ph.D., Patented the AIDS-Fighting Drug AZT.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

CHAPTER 1. Practicalities.

CHAPTER 2. Woman s Work .

CHAPTER 3. Computer Liberation.

CHAPTER 4. Medicine.

CHAPTER 5. Mother Earth.

CHAPTER 6. It Took a Woman.

CHAPTER 7. Women in Space.

CHAPTER 8. Fun and Games.

CHAPTER 9. The Littlest Inventors.

CHAPTER 10. Pathfinders and Forerunners.

Timeline: A More Complete Chronology of Invention.

APPENDIX A: Joining the Ranks.

APPENDIX B: Resources.

Index.
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