Women's History Month titles in the SEC Library
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March is Women's History Month
- Believing : our thirty-year journey to end gender violence byCall Number: HQ1237.5.U6 H55 2021Publication Date: 2021-09-28
- A Black Women's History of the United States byCall Number: E185.86 .B475 2020Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the internet byCall Number: QA76.2.A2 E93 2020Publication Date: 2020-07-07
- Carbon queen : the remarkable life of nanoscience pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus byCall Number: TA455.C3 W45 2022Publication Date: 2022-03-01
- The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race byCall Number: QH440 .I83 2021Publication Date: 2021-03-09After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020.
- Daughters of Latin America : an international anthology of writing by Latin women byCall Number: PN6069.W65 D38 2023Publication Date: 2023-08-15
- The disordered cosmos : a journey into dark matter, spacetime, and dreams deferred byCall Number: QB461.5 .P735 2021In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter--along with a perspective informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek.
- Eve : how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution byCall Number: QP81.5 .B64 2023
- The exceptions : Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science byCall Number: Q130 .Z427 2023Publication Date: 2023-02-28
- First woman : Joanne Simpson and the tropical atmosphere byCall Number: QC858.S56 F54 2020Publication Date: 2020-10-04
- Girl decoded : a scientist's quest to reclaim our humanity by bringing emotional intelligence to technology byCall Number: Q143.E54 E55 2021Publication Date: 2021-04-20
- Glass half-broken : shattering the barriers that still hold women back at work byCall Number: HD6050 .A66 2021Publication Date: 2021-04-13
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race byCall Number: QA27.5 .L44 2016Publication Date: 2016-09-06
- Hood feminism : notes from the women that a movement forgot byCall Number: E185.86 .K46 2021Publication Date: 2021-02-23
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks byCall Number: RC265.6.L24 S55 2011Publication Date: 2011-03-08Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks is buried in an unmarked grave. Her family did not learn of her "immortality" until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists began using her husband and children in research without informed consent.
- More than ready : be strong and be you, and other lessons for women of color on the rise byCall Number: HQ1161 .M86 2020
- My life in full : work, family, and our future byCall Number: HD6054.4.I5 N66 2021Publication Date: 2021-09-28
- The new guys : the historic class of astronauts that broke barriers and changed the face of space travel byCall Number: TL789.85.A1 B34 2023Publication Date: 2023-02-07
- A portrait of the scientist as a young woman byCall Number: Q143.E544 A3 2022Publication Date: 2022-06-07
- The power of one : how I found the strength to tell the truth and why I blew the whistle on Facebook byCall Number: HM743.F33 H39 2023Publication Date: 2023-06-13In 2021, when news outlets feasted on "the Facebook Files," Frances Haugen went public as the former employee who blew the whistle on the company by copying tens of thousands of pages of documents. She testified to Congress and spoke to the media. She made sure everyone understood exactly what the documents revealed: Facebook knew it had accidentally changed its algorithm to reward extremism and refused to fix it; it knew that its customers were using the platform to foment violence, to spread falsehoods, to diminish the self-esteem of young women, and more.
- Proving ground : the untold story of the six women who programmed the world's first modern computer byCall Number: QA76.2.A2 K56 2022Publication Date: 2022-07-26Discover a fascinating look into the lives of six historic trailblazers in this World War II-era story of the American women who programmed the world's first modern computer.
- Rosalind Franklin : the dark lady of DNA byCall Number: QP26.F68 M33 2003Publication Date: 2003-09-30In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery.
- Starstruck : a memoir of astrophysics and finding light in the dark byCall Number: QB36.N33 A3 2023Publication Date: 2023-06-06
- Unbound : my story of liberation and the birth of the Me Too movement byCall Number: HV6592 .B87 2021Publication Date: 2021-09-14
- Wake : the hidden history of women-led slave revolts byCall Number: E447 .H35 2022Publication Date: 2022-06-21
- We Should All Be Feminists byCall Number: HQ1155 .A35 2015ISBN: 9781101911761Publication Date: 2015-02-03
- A wild and precious life : a memoir byCall Number: HQ75.4.W57 A3 2019Publication Date: 2021-05-25A lively, intimate memoir from a marriage equality icon of the gay rights movement, describing gay life in the 1950s and 60s New York City and her longtime activism.
- Woman : the American history of an idea byCall Number: HQ1410 .F33 2022 & ebookPublication Date: 2022-03-15
- Women of color in tech : a blueprint for inspiring and mentoring the next generation of technology innovators byCall Number: T36 .T43 2020 & ebookPublication Date: 2020-04-14
- The worlds I see : curiosity, exploration, and discovery at the dawn of AI byCall Number: QA76.2.L6 A3 2023A memoir of a girl coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling as a scientist at the forefront of the AI/Machine Learning revolution. Fei-Fei Li is known to the world as the creator of ImageNet, a key catalyst of modern artificial intelligence (AI).
- Young and restless : the girls who sparked America's revolutions byCall Number: HQ799.2.P6 K346 2023 & ebook