Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists/Bibliography

This is a bibliography of books on women scientists and scientific biography. Please contribute if you have any suggestions!

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Abir-Am, Pnina G.; Outram, Dorinda (1987). Uneasy careers and intimate lives : women in science, 1789-1979 (2. pbk. pr. ed.). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813512556.
Abram, Ruth J. (1985). "Send us a lady physician" : women doctors in America, 1835-1920 (1. ed.). New York [u.a.]: Norton. ISBN 9780393302783.
Alic, Margaret (1986). Hypatia's heritage : a history of women in science from antiquity to the late nineteenth century ([2. Aufl.] ed.). London: Women's Press. ISBN 9780704339545. May not be reliable as a source (see Talk:Hypatia).
Ambrose, Susan A. (1997). Journeys of women in science and engineering : no universal constants. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. ISBN 9781566395274.
Bailey, Martha J. (1998). American women in science, 1950 to the present : a biographical dictionary ([Nachdr.] ed.). Santa Barbara, Calif. [u.a.]: ABC-Clio. ISBN 9780874369212.
Bailey, Martha J. (1994). American women in science : [prior to 1950 American women scientists] : a biographical dictionary ([2. Aufl.]. ed.). Denver, Colo. [u.a.]: ABC-Clio. ISBN 9780874367409.
Bergland, Renée (2008). Maria Mitchell and the sexing of science : an astronomer among the American romantics ([Online-Ausg.] ed.). Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 9780807021422.
Bonta, Marcia Myers (1991). Women in the field : America's pioneering women naturalists (1st ed.). College Station: Texas A & M University Press. ISBN 9780890964675.
Breton, Mary Joy (1998). Women pioneers for the environment. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press. ISBN 9781555533656.
Brown, Jeannette E. (2012). African American women chemists. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199742882.
Bullough, Vern L. (1988). American nursing : a biographical dictionary. New York: Garland. ISBN 9780824085407.
Burek, C. V.; Higgs, B. (2007). The role of women in the history of geology. London: Geological Society. ISBN 9781862392274.
Byers, Nina (2006). Out of the shadows : contributions of twentieth-century women to physics (Reprinted. ed.). Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Pr. ISBN 9780521821971.
Cantú, Norma E. (2009). Flor y ciencia. [San Antonio, Tex.]: The Adelante Project. ISBN 9780978682002.
Carey, Charles W. (2008). African Americans in science : an encyclopedia of people and progress. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781851099986.
Case, Bettye Anne (2005). Complexities : women in mathematics. Princeton, NJ [u.a.]: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 9780691114620.
Carnegie, Mary Elizabeth (1991). The path we tread : Blacks in nursing, 1854-1990 (2nd ed.). New York, NY: National League for Nursing Press. ISBN 9780887375347.
Chaff, Sandra L. (1977). Women in medicine : a bibliography of the literature on women physicians. Metuchen, N. J. [u.a.]: The Scarecrow Pr. ISBN 9780810810563.
Chung, King-Thom (2010). Women pioneers of medical research : biographies of 25 outstanding scientists. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. ISBN 9780786429271.
Creese, Mary R.S. (1998). Ladies in the laboratory? : American and British women in science, 1800-1900 : a survey of their contributions to research. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780585276847.
Creese, Mary R. S. (2004). Ladies in the Laboratory II: West European women in science, 1800 - 1900 : a survey of their contributions to research. Lanham, Md. [u.a.]: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810849792.
Creese, Mary R.S. (2010). Ladies in the laboratory III : South African, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian women in science : nineteenth and early twentieth centuries : a survey of their contributions. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810872882.
Darraj, Susan Muaddi (2005). Mary Eliza Mahoney and the legacy of African American nurses. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers. ISBN 9780791080290.
Driskell, Claude Evans (1982). History of Chicago Black dental professionals, 1850-1983. Chicago.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Drum, Sue; Whiteley, H. Ellen (1991). Women in veterinary medicine : profiles of success (1st ed.). Ames: Iowa State University Press. ISBN 9780813806686.
Dummett, Clifton O (1978). Afro-Americans in dentistry. Los Angeles.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Epps, Charles H. (1994). African American medical pioneers. Rockville, Md.: Betz. ISBN 9780941406468.
Gacs, Ute (1988). Women anthropologists : a biographical dictionary (1. publ. ed.). New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313244148.
Godbole, Rohini (2008). Lilavati's daughters : the women scientists of India. Bangalore: Indian Academy of Sciences. ISBN 9788184650051.
Goss, W.M. (2010). Under the radar the first woman in radio astronomy : Ruby Payne-Scott (2nd corr. print., [korrigierte Fassung] ed.). Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN 9783642031410.
Bellafaire, Judith; Graf, Mercedes (2009). Women doctors in war (1st ed.). College Station: Texas A & M University Press. ISBN 9781603445726.
Green, Judy (2009). Pioneering women in American mathematics : the pre-1940 PhD's. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 9780821843765.
Grinstein, Louise S. (1997). Women in the biological sciences : a biobibliographic sourcebook (1. publ. ed.). Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313291807.
Grinstein, Louise S. (1993). Women in chemistry and physics : a biobibliographic sourcebook (1. publ. ed.). Westport, Conn. u.a.: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313273827.
Grinstein, Louise S. (1987). Women of mathematics : a biobibliographic sourcebook (1. publ. ed.). New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313248498.
Gubert, Betty Kaplan; Sawyer, Miriam; Fannin, Caroline M. (2002). Distinguished African Americans in aviation and space science. Westport, Conn.: Oryx Press. ISBN 9781573562461.
Haines, Catherine M. C. (2001). International women in science : a biographical dictionary to 1950. Santa Barbara, Calif. [u.a.]: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781576070901.
Hardesty, Von (2008). Black wings : courageous stories of African Americans in aviation and space history (1st ed.). New York: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 9780061261381.
Harrison, Ira E. (1999). African-American pioneers in anthropology. Urbana [u.a.]: Univ. of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252024306.
Hawkins, Walter L. (1992). African-American Biographies:Profiles of 558 current men and women. Jefferson, NC [u.a.]: McFarland. ISBN 9780899506647.
Henderson, Metta Lou (2002). American women pharmacists : contributions to the profession. New York [u.a.]: Pharmaceutical Products Press. ISBN 9780789010919.
Herzenberg, Caroline L. (1986). Women scientists from antiquity to the present : an index : an international reference listing and biographical directory of some notable women scientists from ancient to modern times. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press. ISBN 9780933951013.
Hine, Darlene Clark (1985). Black women in the nursing profession : a documentary history. New York: Garland. ISBN 9780824065164.
Hine, Darlene Clark (1993). Black women in America : an historical encyclopedia (4. pr. ed.). Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub. ISBN 9780926019614.
Holmes, Madelyn (2004). American women conservationists : twelve profiles. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. ISBN 9780786417834.
Hooker, Claire (2004). Irresistible forces : Australian women in science. Melbourne: Melbourne Univ. Press. ISBN 9780522851076.
Hurd-Mead, Kate Campbell (1938). A history of women in medicine : from the earliest times to the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Iinkai, Jikko (2001). Blazing a path : Japanese women's contributions to modern science. [Tokyo?]: Committee for the Encouragement of Future Scientists. ISBN 9784990092115.
Jackson, George F. (1985). Black women, makers of history: a portrait.
James, Edward T. (1974). Notable American women, 1607-1950 : a biographical dictionary (3. print. ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674627345.
Jenkins, Edward Sidney (1996). To fathom more : African American scientists and inventors. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. ISBN 9780761802143.
Kass-Simon, G. (1999). Women of science : righting the record ([Nachdr] ed.). Bloomington, Ind. [u.a.]: Indiana Univ. Press. ISBN 9780253208132.
Kaufman, Martin (1988). Dictionary of American nursing biography (1. publ. ed.). New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313245206.
Kenschaft, Patricia Clark (2005). Change is possible : stories of women and minorities in mathematics. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 9780821837481.
Kessler, James H. (1996). Distinguished African American scientists of the 20th century ([Online-Ausg.]. ed.). Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press. ISBN 9780897749558.
Krapp, Kristine (1990). Notable black American scientists. NY: Gale. ISBN 9780787627898.
Larsen, Phyllis. Our history of women in veterinary medicine : gumption, grace, grit, and good humor.
Levin, Beatrice S. (1980). Women and medicine. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810812963.
Lovejoy, Esther Pohl (1957). Women doctors of the world. Macmillan Company.
McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch (1992). Nobel Prize women in science : their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries (1996 ed.). Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Pub. Group. ISBN 9781559721462.
Morantz-Sanchez, Regina Markell (1985). Sympathy and science : women physicians in American medicine (Paperback [ed.]. ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195036275.
More, Ellen S. (1999). Restoring the balance : women physicians and the profession of medicine, 1850-1995 (2nd printing. ed.). Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: Harvard Univ. Press. ISBN 9780674766617.
Morrow, Charlene; Perl, Teri (1998). Notable women in mathematics : a biographical dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313291319.
Murray, Margaret A.M. (2000). Women becoming mathematicians : creating a professional identity in post-World War II America. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262133692.
Newell, Virginia K. (1980). Black mathematicians and their works. Ardmore, Pa.: Dorrance. ISBN 9780805926774.
Oakes, Elizabeth H. (2002). International encyclopedia of women scientists. New York, NY: Facts on File. ISBN 9780816043811.
O'Connell, Agnes N.; Russo, Nancy Felipe (1990). Women in psychology : a bio-bibliographic sourcebook (1. publ. ed.). New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313260919.
Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2000). The biographical dictionary of women in science : pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415920407.
O'Hern, Elizabeth Moot (1985). Profiles of pioneer women scientists. Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books. ISBN 9780874918113.
Organ, Claude H.; Kosiba, Margaret M. (1987). A Century of Black surgeons : the U.S.A. experience (1st ed.). Norman, Okla.: Transcript Press. ISBN 9780961738006.
Osen, Lynn M. (1974). Women in mathematics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 9780585308050. May not be reliable as a source (see Talk:Hypatia).
Perl, Teri (1978). Math equals. Menlo Park, Calif.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. ISBN 9780201057096.
Perronne, Bobette (1989). Medicine women, curanderas, and women doctors (1st ed.). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806122007.
Phillips, Patricia (1990). The scientific lady : a social history of women's scientific interests, 1520-1918 (1. publ. ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312056850.
Proffitt, Pamela (1999). Notable women scientists. Detroit [u.a.]: Gale Group. ISBN 9780787639006.
Quinn, Thomas A. (2011). The feminine touch women in osteopathic medicine. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press. ISBN 9781612480268.
Rayner-Canham, Marelene F.; Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey (1997). A devotion to their science : pioneer women of radioactivity. Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation. ISBN 9780941901161.
Rayner-Canham, Marelene; Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey (1998). Women in chemistry : their changing roles from alchemical times to the mid-twentieth century. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society. ISBN 9780841235229.
Ristaino, Jean Beagle (2008). Pioneering women in plant pathology. St. Paul, Minn.: APS Press. ISBN 9780890543597.
Rossiter, Margaret W. (1995). Women scientists in America : before affirmative action, 1940-1972 (2. pr. ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801848933.
Rossiter, Margaret W. (2012). Women scientists in America : forging a new world since 1972. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9781421402338.
Rossiter, Margaret W. (1983). Women scientists in America : struggles and strategies to 1940 (3. print. ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801824432.
Sagan, Dorion [ed.] (2012). Lynn Margulis : the life and legacy of a scientific rebel. White River Junction: Chelsea Green. ISBN 9781603584463. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)
Sammons, Vivian Ovelton (1990). Blacks in science and medicine. New York: Hemisphere Pub. Corp. ISBN 9780891166658.
Schiebinger, Londa (1989). The mind has no sex? : women in the origins of modern science ([Reimpr.] ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674576230.
Scrivener, Laurie (2002). A biographical dictionary of women healers : midwives, nurses, and physicians (1. publ. ed.). Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Oryx Press. ISBN 9781573562195.
Shearer, Benjamin; Shearer, Barbara (1996). Notable women in the life sciences : a biographical dictionary (1. publ. ed.). Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313293023.
Shearer, Benjamin F.; Shearer, Barbara (1997). Notable women in the physical sciences : a biographical dictionary (1. publ. ed.). Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313293030.
Sheffield, Suzanne Le-May (2004). Women and science : social impact and interaction. Santa Barbara, Calif. [u.a.]: ABC-Clio. ISBN 9781851094608.
Shteir, Ann B. (1996). Cultivating women, cultivating science Flora's daughters and botany in England, 1760-1860. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801851414.
Slawson, Robert G. (2006). Prologue to change : African Americans in medicine in the Civil War era (1st ed.). Frederick, MD: NMCWN Press. ISBN 9780971223349.
Smith, Jessie Carney (1993). Epic lives : one hundred Black women who made a difference (Pbk. ed.). Detroit: Visible Ink Press. ISBN 9780810394261.
Slawson, Robert G. (2006). Prologue to change : African Americans in medicine in the Civil War era (1st ed.). Frederick, MD: NMCWN Press. ISBN 9780971223349.
Spurlock, Jeanne (1999). Black psychiatrists and American psychiatry (1. ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Assoc. ISBN 9780890424117.
Tang, Joyce (2006). Scientific pioneers : women succeeding in science. Lanham [u.a.]: Univ Press of America. ISBN 9780761833505.
Tong, Benson (1999). Susan La Flesche Picotte, M.D. : Omaha Indian leader and reformer. Norman, Okla.: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806131405.
Warren, Wini (1999). Black women scientists in the United States. Bloomington, Ind. [u.a.]: Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253336033.
Watts, Ruth (2007). Women in science : a social and cultural history (1st ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415253062.
Wayne, Tiffany K. (2011). American women of science since 1900. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781598841596.
Webster, Raymond B. (1999). African American firsts in science & technology. Detroit [u.a.]: Gale. ISBN 9780787638764.
Windsor, Laura Lynn (2002). Women in medicine : an encyclopedia. Oxford: ABC-Clio. ISBN 9781576073926.
Yount, Lisa (1999). A to Z of women in science and math. New York, NY: Facts on File. ISBN 9780816037971.. May not be reliable as a source (see Talk:Hypatia).
Yount, Lisa (1998). Asian-American scientists. New York: Facts on File. ISBN 9780816037568.

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