Julie Des Jardins
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"Julie Des Jardins uncovers the stories of prominent women scientists - from Rachel Carson to Jane Goodall to the women of the Manhattan Project - to explore how women have employed different scientific methods, asked new questions, come up with original explanations, and forever transformed scientific inquiry. The Madame Curie Complex gives fresh insight into the barriers and successes for women in science, and sheds light on the way our cultural...
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In Women and the Historical Enterprise in America, Julie Des Jardins explores American women's participation in the practice of history from the late nineteenth century through the end of World War II, a period in which history became professionalized as an increasingly masculine field of scientific inquiry. Des Jardins shows how women nevertheless transformed the profession during these years in their roles as writers, preservationists, educators,...