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Belenky, Mary F., Clinchy, Blythe M., Goldberger, Nancy R., and Taruli, Jill M. (1997), Women's Ways of Knowing, New York: HarperCollins.
In response to a well-known study of learning by William Perry, who interviewed male students at Harvard, these authors sought to explore how a woman's learning differs. They have found through their interviews with women that there are several distinct phases of learning. They interviewed women having a variety of different educational experiences: college graduates, high school graduates, and the women in the "invisible college," those who struggle with learning about mothering but have received less formal education.
Douglas, Susan J. (1995), Where the Girls Are, New York: Times Books.
Where the Girls Are explores feminist thought and the conflicting messages women have received from the media from the 50's to the early 90's. Douglas shows how these messages have changed each decade and how women have wrestled with the choice to identify with or reject them. From the news media's representation of the women's movement in the 1970's to the escapism many women find in reading popular magazines such as Cosmopolitan , Glamour, and Vogue, Douglas writes about the many messages that women internalize about what it means to be a woman.
Gilligan, Carol (1996), In A Different Voice, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Carol Gilligan looks at the different manners in which men and women respond to problematic situations in her book, In a Different Voice. She explores development and shows that gender differences contribute to how one responds to a given dilemma.
Pipher, Mary Bray (1994), Reviving ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, New York: Putnam.
Mary Pipher, Ph.D, clinical psychologist, writes about her therapy sessions with adolescent girls. She uses cases studies on topics such as sexual and physical abuse, eating disorders, religion, parental divorce, suicide, and drugs and alcohol. In each case study, she introduces us to an adolescent girl and then offers us suggestions in helping to overcome such hardships.
Sark (1997), Succulent Wild Woman, New York: Fireside.
Take naps. Create a friendship ritual with your best friend. With these helpful tidbits of advice, Sark tells women in a very charismatic self-help book, that they are special and should revel in their "succulence." She addresses healing, love, money, anger, and many other topics, sharing a great deal of her life and helping to boost self-esteem.
Tannen, Deborah (1990), You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, New York: Ballantine Books.
In You Just Don't Understand, Tannen explores the various ways men and women relate and communicate. She uses vignettes regarding advice giving, business meetings, lectures, speaking, and listening to explain how we can appreciate and accept gender differences instead of being hurt or feeling rejected by them. The book is a helpful aid in understanding the different levels of communication between men and women.
Walker, Rebecca (1996), To Be Real, New York: Anchor.
This book of essays expresses the viewpoints of various authors about what feminism is. There are many stereotypes that exist in our society about who is and who is not a feminist; this book attempts to dispell those myths.
Belenky, Mary F., Clinchy, Blythe M., Goldberger, Nancy R., and Taruli, Jill M. (1997), Women's Ways of Knowing, New York: HarperCollins.
In response to a well-known study of learning by William Perry, who interviewed male students at Harvard, these authors sought to explore how a woman's learning differs. They have found through their interviews with women that there are several distinct phases of learning. They interviewed women having a variety of different educational experiences: college graduates, high school graduates, and the women in the "invisible college," those who struggle with learning about mothering but have received less formal education.
Orenstein, Peggy (1994), Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap, New York: Doubleday.
Junior high school is a difficult time for many, but it is particularly tough for girls. For many at this age, their self esteem, body image, and self-efficacy in math and science classes plummet. Peggy Orenstein interviews students and observes their classrooms in two California junior high schools, one urban and one suburban, and she examines how this critical time period affects girls in relation to ethnicity and economic status.
Sadker, Myra and Sadker, David (1994), Failing At Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls, New York: Simon and Schuster.
Failing at Fairness is a book that explores gender lines in the classroom. The authors take us on a journey through the schooling of female students. Ranging from statistics to classroom examples, the book shows us how treatment of male and female students differs.
Sanders, Jo, Janice Koch, Josephine Urso (1997), Gender Equity Right From the Start, Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
This guide of instuctional activities is for teacher educators - especially in math, science, and technology. It includes activities and instructional objectives about many "equity issues" that are designed to get future teachers to think critically about equity in schools. This book is an excellent resource for ideas about in-class and out-of-class activities/research projects for teacher education programs as well as ideas about the types of equity issues that exist.
Secada, Walter G., Elizabeth Fennema, Lisa Byrd Adajian (1995), New Directions for Equity in Mathematics Education, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
There are many factors involved in the inequity in math education. This book discusses both race and class as well as gender in the context of a math classroom as factors that lead to this inequity. Chapters 8-11 are the ones that deal specifically with gender issues. These chapters cover topics such as psychosocial processes in classrooms, out-of-school math programs that are successful at empowering girls in mathematics, feminist mathematics, and an anthropological study of a math classroom using gender as the basis for study.
Nolan, Deborah (1997), Women in Mathematics: Scaling the Heights, Washington: The Mathematical Association of America MAA Notes 46.
This issue of the MAA Notes is dedicated to women in mathematics. It contains essays on women in mathematics, talks about course design, and describes some model programs that are encouraging to women interested in pursuing study in mathematics. One of the programs highlighted is the Carleton and St. Olaf Summer Mathematics Program.
Notices of the American Mathematical Society (Sept, 1991), Special Issue on Women in Mathematics.
This special issue of Notices focuses on women in mathematics. It has short biographies of women mathematicians, statistics about women in mathematics, as well as historical perspectives about women in mathematics.
Reid, Constance (1996), Julia: A Life in Mathematics, Washington D.C.: The Mathematical Association of America.
A mathematician, Julia Robinson was elected president of the American Mathematical Society in 1982. This book, which describes the life and work of Julia Robinson, includes a detailed description of her work in solving Hilbert's Tenth Problem.
Sonnert, Gerhard (1995), Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender Dimension, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Gerhard Sonnert explores the lives of ten successful research scientists and ten professionals who left scientific research to reach a greater understanding of the potential factors that ease the path to becoming a successful scientist. Sonnert, in these explorations of five women and five men, looks at their understanding of politics and the role of gender in their departments, how they choose their research problems and work with others, their interests outside of science, and family.
http://www.scottlan.edu/lriddle/women/WOMEN.HTM
Albers, Donald J. and Alexanderson, G.L. (Eds.) (1985), Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews, Cambridge Mass.: Birkhauser Boston. (Contains an interview with Mina Rees and an autobiography of Olga Taussky-Todd.)
Albers, Donald J. and Alexanderson, G.L. (Eds.) (1985), More Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews, Boston: Harcourt Brace. (Contains an interview with Cathleen Morawetz, Julia Robinson, and Mary Ellen Rudin.)
American Association of University Women (1991), Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America.
Brewer, J.W. and Smith, Matha K. (Eds.) (1981), Emmy Noether: A Tribute to her Life and Work, New York: M. Dekker.
Bucciarelli, Louis L. and Dworsky, Nancy (1980), Sophie Germain: An Essay in the History of the Theory of Elasticity, Boston: D. Reidel.
Clewell, Beatrice Chu, Anderson, Bernice Taylor, and Thorpe, Margaret E. (1992), Breaking the Barriers: Helping Female and Minority Students Succeed in Mathematics and Science, San Francisco: Josey-Bass.
Cooney, Miriam P. (Ed.) (1996), Celebrating Women in Mathematics and Science, Reston, Virginia: National Council of Teachers in Mathematics.
Dick, Auguste (1970), Emmy Noeher, 1882-1935, Birkhauser.
Dzielska, Maria (translated by F. Lyra) (1995), Hypatia of Alexandria, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (Reviewed in The American Mathematical Monthly by Michael Deakin, January 1996.)
Grinstein, Louise S. and Campbell, Paul J. (Eds.) (1987), Women of Mathematics: A Bibliographic Sourcebook, New York: Greenwood Press.
Hall, Roberta M. and Sandler, Bernice R. (1982), The Classroom Climate: A Chilly One for Women?, Washington D.C.: Project on the Status and Education of Women, Association of American Colleges.
Henrion, Claudia (1997), Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
Kanigel, Robert (September 1994), Bubble, Bubble: Jean Taylor and the Mathematics of Minimal Surfaces, Math Horizons, Washington, D.C.: The Mathematical Association of America.
Kennedy, Don H. (1983), Little Sparrow: A Portrait of Sophia Kovalesky, Athens: Ohio University Press.
Koblitz, Ann Hibner (1983), A Convergence of Lives: Sophia Kovalevskia: Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary, Cambridge, Mass.: Birkhauser.
Parker, Marla (Ed.) (1995), She Does Math! Real-Life Problems from Women on the Job, Washington, D.C.: The Mathematical Association of America.
Sanford, Linda Tschirhart and Donovan, Mary Ellen (1984),Women and Self Esteem: Understanding and Improving the Way We Think and Feel About Ourselves, New York: Penguin.
Tannen, Deborah (1994), Talking From 9 to 5: Women and Men in the Workplace: Language, Sex and Power, New York: Avon Books.
Uhlenbeck, Karen (April 1996), Coming to Grips with Success: A Profile of Karen Uhlenbeck, Math Horizons, Washington, D.C.: The Mathematical Association of America.
Valian, Virginia (1998), Why So Slow? Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~wmnmath/
http://www.scottlan.edu/lriddle/women/WOMEN.HTM