SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR WIE SYMPOSIUM

Gender in the Pre-College Science, Mathematics, and Technology Classroom

Spring 2004

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This site features many diverse and practical resources for those working to encourage the potential of young women in science, mathematics, and technology. All of the material listed is available to the public through the UIUC Library system. For details on using the Library and accessing materials go to this Library Services page. This page, maintained by the UIUC Library's Office of Development and Public Affairs, has information on obtaining a library card; using the online catalog; links to the departmental libraries and hours; and even information on parking.

Bailey, Martha J.  American Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1994.

Bailey, Martha J. American Women in Science: 1950 to the Present. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1998.

Bindocci, Cynthia Gay, comp. Women and Technology: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1993.

Creese, Mary R. S. Ladies in the Laboratory?: American and British Women in Science, 1800-1900: A Survey of Their Contributions to Research. Lantham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998.

Grinstein, Louise S., Carol A. Biermann, and Rose K. Rose, eds.  Women in the Biological Sciences: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.

Grinstein, Louise S. and Paul J. Campbell, eds. Women of Mathematics: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987

Haines, Catherine M. C.  International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2001.

Morrow, Charlene and Teri Perl, eds. Notable Women In Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998.

Ogilivie, Marilyn and Joy Harvey, eds. The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Sherer, Benjamin F. and Barbara S. Sherer, eds. Notable Women in the Life Sciences. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996.

Zierdt-Warshaw, Linda, Alan Winkler, and Leonard Bernstein. American Women in Technology: An  Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000.

Science

Bernstein, Leonard. African and African American Women of  Science. Maywood, NJ: Peoples Publishing Group, 1998.

Davis, Cinda Sue et al.  The Equity Equation: Fostering the Advancement of Women in the Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996.

Etzkowitz, Henry, Carol Kemelgor, and Brian Uzzi. Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women In Science and Technology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Hanson, Sandra L. Lost Talent: Women in the Sciences. Philadelphia: Temple UP,1996.

Haraway, Donna Jeanne. Modest Witness@Second-Millennium. FemaleMan Meets OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Haraway, Donna Jeanne. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Harding, Sandra G. The Science Question in Feminism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1986.

Harding, Sandra G. Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking From Women's Lives. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1991.

Howes, Elaine V. Connecting Girls and Science: Constructivism, Feminism, and Science Education Reform. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002.

Kirkup, Gill and Laurie Smith Keller, eds. Inventing Women: Science, Technology and Gender. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1992.

Lederman, Muriel and Ingrid Bartsch, eds. The Gender and Science Reader. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Pattatucci, Angela M. ed. Women in Science: Meeting Career Challenges. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998.

Reviere, Rebecca. Race, Gender, and Science: Selected Topics. Baltimore: National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women, 2003.

Rosser, Sue V.  Female-Friendly Science: Applying Women's Studies Methods and Theories to Attract Students. New York: Pergamom Press, 1990.

Rosser, Sue V. Re-Engineering Female Friendly Science. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997.

Rosser, Sue V., ed. Teaching the Majority: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Science, Mathematics and Engineering. New York: Teachers College Press, 1995.

Rozak, Theodore. The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science. Berkeley: Conari Press, 1999.

Sadker, Myra and David.  Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1994.

Sadker, Myra and David.  Teachers, Schools, and Society. 4th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 1997.

Schiebinger, Londa L. Has Feminism Changed Science? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

The Scientific Education of Girls: Education Beyond Reproach?  Work carried out by the French Commission for UNESCO. Paris: Unesco, 1995.

Selby, Cecily Cannan. Women in Science and Engineering: Choices for Success. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1999.

Sonnert, Gerhard with Gerald Holton. Who Succeeds in Science?: The Gender Dimension. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.

Thom, Mary. Balancing the Equation: Where are the Women and Girls in Science, Engineering, and Technology? Researched and produced by the National Council for Research on Women.  New York: National Council for Research on Women, 2001.

Tolley, Kimberley. The Science Education of American Girls: A Historical Perspective. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2003.

Wyer, Mary et al, eds. Women, Science, and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Xie, Yu and Kimberlee A. Shauman. Women in Science: Career Processes and Outcomes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Engineering

Ambrose, Susan. Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering: No Universal Constants. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997.

Canal, Annie, Ruth Oldenziel, and Karin Zachmann, eds. Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges: Comparing the History of Women Engineers, 1870s-1990s. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic, 2000.

Lazarus, Barbara B., Lisa M. Ritter, and Susan A. Ambrose. The Woman's Guide to Navigating the Ph.D. in Engineering & Science. New York: IEEE Press, 2001.

Long, J. Scott, ed. From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001.

McIlwee, Judith Samson and J. Gregg Robinson. Women in Engineering: Gender, Power, and Workplace Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

Mathematics

Burton, Leone, ed. Gender and Mathematics: An International Perspective. London: Cassell, 1990.

Fennema, Elizabeth and Gilah C. Leder, eds. Mathematics and Gender.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Gender Equity in Math and Science. Washington, DC: National Association for Women in Education, 1993.

Hanna, Gila, ed. Towards Gender Equity in Mathematics Education: An ICMI [International Commission on Mathematical Instruction] Study. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1996.

Kenschaft, Patricia Clark, ed. Winning Women into Mathematics. Prepared by the Committee on Participation of Women of the Mathematical Association of America. Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America, 1991.

Nolan, Deborah, ed. Women in Mathematics: Scaling the Heights. Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America, 1997.

Rogers, Pat and Gabriele Kaiser, eds. Equity in Mathematics Education: Influences of Feminism and Culture. London: Falmer Press, 1995.

Technology & Computing

Cooper, Joel and Kimberlee D. Weaver. Gender and Computers: Understanding the Digital Divide. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003.

Furger, Roberta. Does Jane Compute?: Preserving Our Daughters' Place in the Cyber Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 1998.

Graner Ray, Sheri. Gender Inclusive Game Design: Expanding the Market. Hingham, MA: Charles River Media, 2004.

Harcourt, Wendy, ed. Women@Internet: Creating New Cultures in Cyberspace. New York: Zed, 1999.

Lander, Rachel and Alison Adam, eds. Women in Computing. Exeter: Intellect, 1997.

Lerman, Nina E., Ruth Oldenziel, Arwen P. Mohun, eds. Gender & Technology: A Reader. Baltimore Johns Hopkins Press, 2003.

Morritt, Hope. Women and Computer Based Technologies: A Feminist Perspective. Lanham: University Press of America, 1997.

Pilato, Denise E.  The Retrieval of a Legacy: Nineteenth-Century American Women Inventors. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000.

Shade, Leslie Regan. Gender & Community in the Social Construction of the Internet. New York: P. Lang, 2002.

Stanley, Autumn. Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1993.

Stewart Millar, Melanie. Cracking the Gender Code: Who Rules the Wired World? Toronto: Second Story, 1998.

Vare, Ethlie Ann and Greg Ptacek. Patently Female: From Art to TV Dinners: Amazing Stories of Women and Their Breakthrough Inventions. New York: Wiley, 2001.

Yelland, Nicola and Andee Rubin, eds. Ghosts in the Machine: Women's Voices in Research with Technology. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.

Web Sites

WIE: Women in Engineering at UIUC
The mission of the Women in Engineering Office (WIE) in the College of Engineering is to catalyze an environment that supports and inspires women students in the college and to assess and enhance their educational experience, their recruitment to the college, and their retention within it.

4000 Years of Women in Science
This site provides brief biographies of women in science.  Women are listed in alphabetical order, and emphasis is on women of the past.

Association for Women in Mathematics
A non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging women and girls in the mathematical sciences.

Association for Women in Science
The Association for Women in Science is dedicated to achieving equity and full participation for women in science, mathematics, engineering and technology

Center for Women and Information Technology.
The Center aims to enourage more women and girls to study computer science/IT; to enable females to use IT comfortably; and to foster research about the relationship between gender and IT.

This resource site for practitioners was created by the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign's Women and Gender Resources Library as part of the Women in Engineering's first annual
Symposium on Gender in the Pre-College Science, Mathematics, and Technology Classroom

April 23, 2004
Cindy Ingold, Women and Gender Resources Librarian
UIUC Library
Email: cingold@uiuc.edu