Patently Female: From AZT to TV Dinners, Stories of Women Inventors and Their Breakthrough IdeasISBN: 978-0-471-02334-0
Hardcover
240 pages
November 2001
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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.
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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