A fun and feminist look at forgotten women in science, technology, and beyond, from the bestselling author of THE FANGIRL\'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY You may think you know women\'s History pretty well.
Table of Contents: Women of Science Women of Medicine Women of Espionage Women of Innovation Women of Adventure.
Plus, interviews with real-life women in STEM careers, an extensive bibliography, and a guide to women-centric science and technology organizations--all to show the many ways the geeky girls of today can help to build the future.
In Wonder Women , author Sam Maggs tells the stories of the brilliant, brainy, and totally rad women in History who broke barriers as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers, and inventors. satellite into orbit? - Huang Daopo, the inventor whose weaving technology revolutionized textile production in China--centuries before the cotton gin? Smart women have always been able to achieve amazing things, even when the odds were stacked against them. - Alice Ball, the chemist who developed an effective treatment for leprosy--only to have the credit taken by a man? - Mary Sherman Morgan, the rocket scientist whose liquid fuel compounds blasted the first U.
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A fun and feminist look at forgotten women in science, technology, and beyond, from the bestselling author of THE FANGIRL\'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY You may think you know women\'s History pretty well
