Posts Tagged ‘women in the 2Oth century’
Another Book That Sat on the To-Be-Read Shelves for Far too Long: Fast-Talking Dames
Fast-Talking Dames by Maria DiBattista is both a study of and homage to the fast-talking heroines of Hollywood comedies in the 1930s and 1940s. Like me, DiBattista discovered the women she writes about in her early teens, when she watched old movies after school and late at night. Like me, she saw them as a…
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From the Archives: Talking About Women’s History and Overnight Code with Paige Bowers
This one dates from 2021. I was glad to pull it out and read it again. *** I’ve been waiting to read Paige Bowers’s Overnight Code, the story of groundbreaking computer engineer and ship designer Raye Montague, ever since Paige announced the deal more than a year ago. When I finally got my hands on…
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Dr. Florence Sabin: A Career with a Second-Act Twist.
Dr. Florence Sabin (1871-1953) was one of the first women doctors to build a career as a research scientist. Sabin was interested in math and science from the beginning. She attended Smith College, where she majored in zoology. One of her professors encouraged her to study medicine at Johns Hopkins new co-educational medical school.[1] Sabin…
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