Forces of Nature

Anna Reser is an American historian of science and technology. She holds a PhD in the history of science, technology, and medicine from the University of Oklahoma. She is the co-founder co-editor in chief  of Lady Science magazine, and her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Real Life, StarTrek.com, Technology’s Stories and more.   Leila McNeill is an American writer, editor, and historian of science. She is an Affiliate Fellow in the History of Science at the University of Oklahoma and the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of Lady Science magazine. She has been a columnist for Smithsonian.com and BBC Future, and she has been published by The Atlantic, The Baffler, JSTOR Daily, amongst others.

Introduction
Reading Women’s Silence in the History of Science
Section I
Antiquity to the Middles Ages
Physicians, Midwives, and “Grannies”
The Supernatural and the Sanctified
Section II
The Renaissance & The Enlightenment
Women Calculate Their Own Path to Science
The Wives and Sisters of Scientific Partnerships
Women and the Science of the Body in the Scientific Revolution
Empire and Exploitation in the Age of Exploration
Section III
The Long Nineteenth Century
Women Science Writers and Popularizers
Botany for Ladies
From the Home to the Hospital
Home Physicians and Lady Doctors
Section IV
The Twentieth Century, Pre-World War II
“Powerful levers that move worlds!”
The Home as Laboratory
Women’s Reproductive Freedom and the Eugenics Movement
Women Archaeologists and Anthropologists Humanize their Past
What Cannot Be Unmade
Section V
Twentieth Century, Post-World War II
The Plight of Women Refugee Scientists
Coming to America
Nature’s Housekeepers Begin a Movement
The Double Bind in the Sciences
More than Astronauts
Reconfiguring the Female
The Problem with “Female Firsts”
Afterword
Other women to inspire
Index
Acknowledgments & Picture Credits
Endnotes
Bibliography