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Pages: 195
Authors: Charlotte Montague
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-05 - Publisher: Chartwell Books

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Hypatia was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who invented the hydrometer in about 400 AD. Described as a charismatic teacher, she was seen as
The Invention of Women
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-10 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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The "woman question", this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western contructi
Mothers of Invention
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Drew Gilpin Faust
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-01 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the benefici
Mothers and Daughters of Invention
Language: en
Pages: 792
Authors: Autumn Stanley
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Stanley traces women's inventions in five vital areas of technology worldwide--agriculture, medicine, reproduction, machines, and computers.
Mothers of Invention
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Ethlie Ann Vare
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989-01-01 - Publisher:

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Describes how women invent such items as Liquid Paper, chocolate chip cookies, tract houses, brassieres, computer compilers, and nonreflecting glass