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Lady Science

is a multifaceted collaborative writing project focused on women in science, technology, and medicine. Their purpose is to highlight women's lives and contributions to scientific fields, to critique representations of women in history and popular culture, and to provide an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web.

Micrograph of a mucinous ovarian carcinoma stained by H&E. (Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0)

Dr. Jane C. Wright and the Making of Modern Oncology

By Lady ScienceNovember 15, 2018
By Victoria Forster and Elizabeth Wayne
Chess pieces, King and Queen, Randy Pagatpatan. (Flickr | CC BY-ND 2.0)

Living Chess

By Lady ScienceNovember 15, 2018
By Robert Davis
Oocyte with Zona pellucida by ZEISS Microscopy. (Flikr | CC BY-SA 2.0CC)
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Cell Culture and Science Culture

By Lady ScienceNovember 15, 2018
By Alicia Puglionesi
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Alcoholism, Pregnancy, and the Language of Denigration

By Lady ScienceSeptember 20, 2018
By Emma Pask
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The Victorian Women Whose Writing Popularized Watching Birds Instead of Wearing Them

By Lady ScienceSeptember 20, 2018
by Allison C. Meier 
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The Work of Art in the Age of Xerox Reproduction

By Lady ScienceAugust 16, 2018
By Erica Eisen
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Deerly Held Beliefs: Feminist biology and white-tailed deer population control

By Lady ScienceAugust 16, 2018
By Kaitlin Stack-Whitney
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Diseases Of Virgins And Spinsters: The Gynephobic History Of Chlorosis And Hysteria

By Lady ScienceJuly 19, 2018
By Ann Foster
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The Science of What Makes Pain So Personal

By Lady ScienceJuly 19, 2018
By Lorraine Boissoneault
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Fear, Pain, and the Representation of Women’s Wartime Trauma

By Lady ScienceJuly 19, 2018
By Bridget Keown
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Emily Warren Roebling, the Woman Who Built New York

By Lady ScienceJune 14, 2018
By Jessica Jacolbe
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Where in the world is…Cathy Carlston?

By Lady ScienceJune 14, 2018
By Joy Lisi Rankin
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Left to their Own Devices: Gender, Cyberviolence, and the Internet

By Lady ScienceJune 14, 2018
By Emma Louise Backe
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Rhythms of Change: The Victorian Science Poems of May Kendall

By Lady ScienceMay 17, 2018
By Olivia Rosane
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Women Radiobiologists and 'Standard Man'

By Lady ScienceMay 17, 2018
By Brad Bolman In the waning years of 1940, Mary Jane Cook began work in the Health Physics department of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, named…
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Welcome to Life as a Stepford Wife: The Politics of Self-Care in the 19th Century

By Lady ScienceMay 17, 2018
By Robert Davis Beauty and self-care has always been in conversation with contemporary politics, especially regarding race, gender, class, and privilege. While the concept of…

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