Outstanding Women Research Articles

Using Biographies of Outstanding Women in Bioengineering to Dispel Biology Teachers' Misperceptions of Engineers

Using Biographies of Outstanding Women in Bioengineering to Dispel Biology Teachers' Misperceptions of Engineers

Using Biographies of Outstanding Women in Bioengineering to Dispel Biology Teachers' Misperceptions of Engineers

Research Article| October 01 2009 Using Biographies of Outstanding Women in Bioengineering to Dispel Biology Teachers' Misperceptions of Engineers Yin Kiong Hoh Yin Kiong Hoh Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The American Biology Teacher (2009) 71 (8): 458–463. https://doi.org/10.2307/20565358 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Yin Kiong Hoh; Using Biographies of Outstanding Women in Bioengineering to Dispel Biology Teachers' Misperceptions of Engineers. The American Biology Teacher 1 October 2009; 71 (8): 458–463. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20565358 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe American Biology Teacher Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright National Association of Biology Teachers Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Maria Goeppert Mayer

This is a brief biography of Maria Goeppert Mayer. We have tried to emphasise that even outstanding women like her had to suffer (and still suffer) great discrimination. In spite of the handicaps she achieved the highest scientific distinction.

The Diaries of Fanny Hensel and Clara Schumann: A Study in Contrasts

Clara Schumann, née Wieck (1819–1896), and Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1805–1847), were among the outstanding women musicians of their time. Both kept diaries that still exist, and from these we can learn a great deal about the inner and outer lives of the two women. Fanny Hensel's diaries were originally used by her son Sebastian for his bookDie Familie Mendelssohn, 1729–1847. He gave us her life story as seen through his eyes, and furnished the major information available about his mother until the recent publication of her diaries: Fanny Hensel,Tagebücher. This book was based on the diary manuscripts acquired by the Mendelssohn Archive of the Berlin Staatsbibliothek in 1969, 1970 and 1999. Fanny Hensel'sTagebüchercover the years 1829 to 1847, thus from the year of her marriage to the year of her death.

Outstanding Women in Mechanical Engineering

The article aims to sensitise teachers to their perception of engineers and scientists. It also highlights the life and achievements of one outstanding woman mechanical engineer, namely Ilene J. Busch-Vishniac, and summarises the achievements of other outstanding women in mechanical engineering. Teachers can use the examples of these outstanding female engineers as role models to inspire their students.

Women in Tibet

Contents: I: Women in Traditional Tibet Helga Uebach, Ladies of the Tibetan Empire (Seventh to Ninth Centuries) Dan Martin, The Woman Illusion? Research into the Lives of Spiritually Accomplished Women Leaders of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries Kurtis R. Schaeffer, The Autobiography of a Medieval Hermitess:Orgyen Chokyi (1675-1729) II: Women in Tibet Today Hildegard Diemberger, Female Oracles in Modern Tibet Tashi Tsering, Outstanding Women in Tibetan Medicine - Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy, Women in the Performing Arts: Portraits of Six Singers Charlene E. Makley, The Body of a Nun: Nunhood and Gender in Contemporary Amdo Robert Barnett, Women and Politics in Tibet Today.

Performance, Discovery, and Relational Narratives among Women Professional Tournament Golfers

The dominant narrative within the literature on elite sport is characterised by a total focus on performance. Scholars in other areas have noted how although alternatives to the dominant narrative exist they are often silenced and fail to reach the public domain. Drawing on interviews with seven women professional tournament golfers, we explored the narratives women use to make sense of their experiences in elite sport. We present three narratives which illustrate the existence of alternatives to the dominant performance narrative among Europe’s most outstanding women golfers. Two alternatives are identified: a discovery narrative and a relational narrative. These findings suggest that diverse routes to success are possible in women’s professional sport. We discuss the educational and social implications of the alternative narratives in an effort to encourage discussion and debate among athletes, administrators, coaches, sports psychologists, and educators.

:Late-Medieval German Women's Poetry: Secular and Religious Songs

Although, there were a number of outstanding women writers of the late middle ages, it was not thought that women composed lyric poetry. Albrecht Classen's careful investigation of archival material, however, proves this to be a misconception, and in this volume he presents a selection of secular love songs and religious hymns composed by fifteenth- and sixteenth-century German women poets, here translated for the first time, based on his two-volume edition in the original language. Many women seem to have left their works anonymously, or hid their names in their texts using acrostics; in these and other cases, applying appropriate research tools, Classen has identified a considerable corpus of women's poetry which now promises to fill the gap previously supposed to exist in the history of medieval and early-modern German women's poetry.

Women's Contribution to Nineteenth-Century American Theatre

Most scholars of American drama and theatre acknowledge that women's contributions to the field, especially those prior to the twentieth century, have been underrepresented. Over the past twenty-five years, scholars have begun to address a number of those glaring omissions. Women in American Theatre (New York: Crown, 1981; rev, and exp,, New York: TCG, 1987), edited by Helen Krich Chinoy and Linda Walsh Jenkins, fired the first resounding salvo, addressing an enormous range of material. Faye Dudden's outstanding Women in the American Theatre: Actresses & Audiences, 1790–1870 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994) provided a more focused study and insight into countless previously unknown figures. Amelia Howe Kritzer's Plays by Early American Women, 1775–1850 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995) brought to the surface many plays and dramatists never before anthologized.

Une uirgo offerte aux dieux et à la libertas: Virginie, figure féminine silencieuse (LIV., 3, 44-48)

When he wrote his Roman History, Livy made literary and political choices, with the clear intention of giving his fellow citizens exempla. Thus we can retain the memory of brilliant feats of arms by renowned men, but very few are outstanding women. Livy related at length the trial of one of them, Virginia, who became a symbol of freedom for all Romans. Who was Virginia? What truth - more or less acceptable - is hidden behind her death the Roman historian describes ?

Meetings, Transactions and Society News

The 11th Prague Dermatology Symposium organized by the International Society of Dermatology (ISD) and the 2nd Medical School, Charles University of Prague, held last September 15–17, 2005 was a huge success. Professor Jana Hercogova saw to it that distinguished speakers from all over the world like Prof. Klaus Wolff, Bergman, and Lotti shared their expertise and experiences to the attendees. The topics were very comprehensive, varied and updated. The discussion ranged from infectious diseases, to dermatopathology to clinical procedures and cosmetics. Being a recipient of the International Society of Dermatology Young Traveller's Award 2005, I was given the opportunity to present my case of “Streptococcal Septic Vasculitis in a child with Dengue Hemorrhagic fever’ during the residents” forum. The organizers were able to bring in fifteen other residents from different countries that shared their cases and studies as well. It was a very exciting and inspiring learning experience to be able to attend such a conference. The ISD has given young dermatologists like me a chance to meet colleagues from different countries. We were able to learn from each other by sharing our knowledge and practices in dermatology. In addition, we all had a great time since Prague is a very beautiful and historical city. A very accommodating staff also attended to us. As I speak for all the other young dermatologists, it has been an honor for us to be granted this award. More power to the ISD. As long as this organization can continue to bring together dermatologists from all over the world, unity and cooperation will prevail. Mabuhay! The Maria Duran Committee organized a special session on Thursday November 17, 2005. This was arranged through the International Society of Dermatology's participation at the recent Colegio Ibero-Latinoamericano de Dermatologia meeting in Cartagena, Columbia. The program moderator was Dr. Antonella Tosti, Bologna, Italy, a charter member of the Maria Duran Committee. Dr. Tosti officiated over two distinguished lectures and the awarding of the Maria Duran Medals. The celebrated recipients were Dr. Marcia Ramos-e-Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who spoke on “Photoprotection and Black Skin” and Dr. Ana Kaminsky, Buenos Aires, Argentina who spoke on “Terminal Hair Follicle Occlusion Syndrome (Acne Inversa)”. These two outstanding women of world dermatology were each granted these prestigious awards in recognition of their contributions in the spirit of the Maria Duran ideal. Dr. Tosti also introduced the Maria Duran Lecturer, Dr. Robin Marks from Melbourne, Australia and presided over the program. Dr. Marks gave an eloquent presentation on “The Public Health Approach to Control of Skin Disease-Making a Difference in a Time of Economic Rationalism”. His presentation underscored his significant contributions to dermatologic conditions affecting women and children and the influence of his work on global public health. Acknowledgment was also given to Dr. Clarisse Pratti, Porto Alegre, Brazil as the recipient of the Maria Duran Fellowship. This award is designed to fund young women dermatologists to attend regional and international meetings. Congratulations to each of the award winners and thank you to Dr. Tosti. This recognition is especially significant because it celebrated the life and work of Maria Duran in her home country of Columbia. A touching tribute to Dr. Duran was included in the program and reminded those attending of her vibrant, many faceted life and her passion for dermatology. For more information on Maria Duran, the Maria Duran Committee and the activities it funds, please visit the International Society of Dermatology's website at http://www.intsocdermatol.org

More Women in Science

Universities are failing to take advantage of an available resource: the brainpower of women scientists. In many fields of science, the proportion of women in faculty positions lags well behind the proportion of Ph.D.9s granted to women. In this Policy Forum, the authors explore the reasons for the disparity and offer examples of strategies used at research universities to overcome the impediments to recruitment, retention, and advancement of outstanding women scientists.

An arduous citizenship for women

SUMMARY In this article, Maria Teresa Guerra Medici examines the historical and philosophical arguments advanced for the exclusion of women from exercising rights of citizenship in European society. This exclusion can be traced back to the beginnings of the formation of urban communities, as illustrated in the mythology about the founding of Athens. All the traditional sources have a powerful mysogynist content, suggesting that women, by their nature, not only lack the capacities needed for participating in public affairs, but, in the Pandora myths, were actually responsible for many of the negative forces at work in society. The goddess Athena herself is ascribed masculine qualities related to her creation out of the head of Zeus. Greek culture came to distinguish the difference between nature and culture, in which females were relegated to the former and culture was exclusively masculine. The article then traces how these attitudes developed and were modified in Roman and then Christian culture. Rome did recognize the historical contribution of some outstanding women, but still excluded them by law from public life as the weaker sex, and confined them to a domestic role within the family, under a patriarchal head. In the Christian era, the role of Eve, held responsible for the fall from Grace of mankind, and the emphasis on all females being properly kept under male guardianship in a patriarchal social order were used to justify the continued denial of rights of participation to females, and continued their limitation to the domestic sphere. Even the potentially egalitarian implications of the transition of citizens into subjects of the emerging monarchial states were largely negated by the continuing patriarchal model of lawful authority, in which women were represented by their appropriate male guardian in public matters.

Women, Nationalism and the Philippine Revolution

Abstract. Filipino women participated actively in the Philippine Revolution (1896–1902), performing a wide range of tasks essential to sustaining the revolutionary challenge against Spanish and American imperialism. Though largely omitted from mainstream histories of the nationalist revolution, women's involvement has been recorded in several marginalised texts. However, these texts have invariably used a limiting format based on presenting biographies of outstanding women. This article suggests an alternative approach, by situating the history of revolutionary Filipino women within a comparative framework. The article outlines key ideas of feminist writers who have analysed women's participation in nationalist struggles from an international perspective. Drawing on these ideas, some new approaches to women in the Philippine Revolution are suggested.

Outstanding Women Athletes; Who They Are and How They Influenced Sports in America

Outstanding Women Athletes; Who They Are and How They Influenced Sports in America

Franklin’s Crossing by Clay Reynolds

Reviews 89 Hutchison, reflecting light in a mirror, spreads a scene of the world we have now created and puts us into the reflection. The reflection is grief, lamentation for our earth, for ourselves, for persons close passing from us, for the passing of those unknown third persons, a spreading horizontal grief as wide as light, as wide as life. In the mirror if we look closely, we will find self to be the cause of grief, selfthe victim of self. But the light endures, has and still gives light to fish, birds and now us, who from a “Viewpoint on Independence Pass,”“... suddenly feel/kissed by shadows of birds/sailing high/in the gusty light.” In the second section, to the commonplace of private and public griefs, Hutchison addsjoy, which allows us to survive and continue the destruction.Joy comes to ease the grief; grief comes to keep us grounded. In the third section, thejoy is clandestine, a love affair with light, with life. But of course, the secret joy of one person is at the expense of another. The self lives, devouring light, even when the light is another life, . . nameless . . . /like dust.” SANDRA GAIL TEICHMANN Florida State University Franklin’s Crossing. By Clay Reynolds. (New York: Dutton, 1992. 536 pages, $22.00.) Franklin’s Crossing satisfies everything a reader expects of a Western. Reynolds’book, however, is set apart from others of its genre by its brutal truth about the realities of the experience ofpeople on awagon train out ofJefferson, Texas, making the long trek to Santa Fe. The story is set in the 1870s when the Comanches, Kiowas, and Cheyennes combined in an uprising that left trails of horror across the Texas plains. Indian atrocities have not been so graphically described since J. W. Wilbarger’s 1889 account, Indian Depredations in Texas. Even readers saturated with the violence of media will be repulsed, revolted. Brutality, whether visited upon blacks, browns, reds, or whites, provides special effects for the scenario. Wagon-master Cleveland Graham has hired a black scout, Moses Franklin, to lead the train to Santa Fe where he has a buyer for his load of whiskey. Both men love Aggie, a golden girl in both appearance and soul. Moses must deny the emotions aroused by the white girl’s kindness. Cleve’s yearning for her grows in proportion to his hatred for the black man. Moses leads the train, after some unfortunate delays, to a crossing where Indians besiege the weary travelers. The plot seems thin; not so the characterization. Flashbacks provide back­ ground out of which the major characters evolve. Parallelism between Moses and Cleve is the technique by which these two are known. Contrasting Aggie with the other women is Reynolds’way of creating a figure bound to be one of the outstanding women of western fiction. Franklin’s Crossing is a book of racial conflict, a non-romantic story of the 90 WesternAmerican Literature American dream, a development of three dynamic characters who make their choices and find self-definition in the agony that follows. On another level, it is a parable from Hebrew Scriptures. Moses’dream is to lead his people out of the economic bondage of Reconstruction Texas, but he is denied seeing his dream fulfilled. Cleve, his counterpart, cannot reach his promised land, the Valley of High Snows, for he sacrificed all to evil: the whiskey, tool of the devil figure,Jack Sterling. As the parable unfolds, the people on the train suffer for their hypocrisy, hatred, and cruelty. It is scriptural retribution, a recurring theme in Reynolds’work. This powerful novel promises to move Reynolds from the ranks of regional and Western writers to that of top novelists who look beyond time and place to examine humanity at its worst—and its best. ERNESTINE SEWELL LINCK Commerce, Texas Waiting to Exhale. By Terry McMillan. (New York: Viking, 1992. 409 pages, $22.00.) Terry McMillan’s Waiting toExhale concerns people we don’t often see in western literature—urban black women. The story, set in Phoenix, centers on four friends in their mid-thirties. Though the novel focuses on relationships between people rather than to place, the setting becomes...

Outstanding women athletes: who they are and how they influenced sports in America

Foreword Introduction Acknowledgments History of Women's Sports Chapter 1--Women in American Sports Chapter 2--Women in the Olympics Biographies and Teams Chapter 3--Outstanding Women Athletes Who Influenced American Sports Chapter 4--Outstanding Women's Teams All American Girls Professional Baseball League America 1994 Colorado Silver Bullets Raybestos Brakettes Tennessee State University U.S. Synchronized Swiming Team U.S. Women's Gymnastics Team U.S. Women's National Soccer Team USA Basketball Women's National Team USA Softball Women's National Team Basic Resources Chapter 5--Selected Bibliography Chapter 6--Directory of Organizations Part IV: Appendixes Appendix A--Olympic Gold Medalists Appendix B--Award Winners and National Champions Appendix C--National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Champions--Division I Appendix D--Athletes Profiled in Outstanding Women Athletes, Arranged by Sport Appendix E--List of Organization Abbreviations Appendix F--Selected Reference Sources Index

The allegory of female authority: Christine de Pizan's Cité des dames (review)

Reviews 233 accompany the stanzas. Norse poetic terminology is usually rendered by the 'basic' meaning so that for example, w e find 'sword' rather than 'swinging twig of the mailcoat' in the translation of 'Egill's duel with Lj6tr', stanza two. In Poole's exposition the reader is frequently, though not invariably, aided by translations of short Norse phrases and should rarely have great difficulty in following the argument. Some readers may feU that the author is occasionally over-generous in detecting unity in his texts but his case is always carefully argued and generally it is convincing. The book is attractively presented on acid-free paper, with a useful twelvepage bibliography. Slightly regrettable, as introducing an amateurish touch into an otherwise very professional production, is the representation of the letter 'eth' by a 'd' with a horizontal stroke through it. 'Thorn' was, however, available to the printer. The statement in the 'blurb' on thefirstpage that what Poole calls 'Fri ger arflokkr' is an extract from Sextefha is both surprising and unsupported elsewhere in the volume. One abbreviation used in the bibliography, ASB (for Altnordische Saga-Bibtiothek) is omitted from the 'Abbreviations'. In his acknowledgements Poole speaks of his 'attempts to survey Ultima Thule from the distant perspective of Tena Australis Incognita'. This latest addition to the small band of Norse monographs with an 'Antipodean' connection should be welcomed by all interested in skaldic poetry qua poetry or in the role that the verse plays in the fslendingasogur and konungaso'gur. John Kennedy School of Information Studies Charles Sturt University, Riverina Quilligan, Maureen, The allegory of female authority: Christine de Pizan's Cite" des dames, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1991; cloth and paper; pp. xv, 290; 41 illustrations; R.R.P. US$49.50 (cloth), $16.45 (paper). Like Stephen Hawking's A brief history of time, Christine de Pizan's Livre de la citi des dames is, one suspects, a book much talked about but litde read. Maureen Quilligan's The allegory offemale authority, which more than fulfils its intention 'to help to make the text of the Citi des dames more readable' (p. 4), should do much to conquer reader reluctance for this 15th-century prose allegory about the construction of a female bastion, designed both as a refuge from the assaults of medieval misogyny and as monument to the achievements of outstanding women. The scope and theoretical underpinning of Quilligan's eloquent study belie its modest claim to be 'essentially a page-by-page commentary' (p. 2) on the Cite. Beginning with an eloquent plea for consideration of Christine's distinctive authorial persona before m o d e m critical theory completes the 234 Reviews authorial obituary, Quilligan's thesis is that the central issue of the Cite" is female authority: literary, maternal, and poUtical. What foUows is an absorbing, multi-leveUed analysis, ranging from the Citi's central architectural metaphor to discussion of its reconstruction of male 'precursor texts' which provide the Citfs literary grist such as Boccaccio's De mulieribus Claris and Decameron and the Speculum historiale of Vincent de Beauvais, Christine's construction of its gender specific voice ('Je, Christine'), and her self-positioning vis-a-vis the audores of the medieval literary canon. To the accompaniment of narratives about famous women from the Bible, history and legend, which are delivered by three personified female figures of authority, Reason, Justice and Droitture (Rectitude), 'Christine' sets about the composition of her textual city. In Reason's opening histories of female city founders, maternality, Quilligan argues, becomes an instrument which legitimizes female martial and political power and emerges as a continuing focus of psychoanalytical interest in the Cite'. The insertion of a female martyrology, which is without parallel in Boccaccio, into the last section of the work is, she suggests, a move against the authority of that auctor and a representation of martyrdom as a 'political' process, which publicly celebrates female authority over self and earthly power. The allegory concludes with an apologia in defence of the conservative ending to the Cite", which enjoins w o m e n to be virtuous wives, widows and virgins. Christine's politics, must in Quilligan's view...

Female Social Workers in the Second Generation

This article explores the contribution of female social workers during the "second generation" of the profession—from about 1920 to 1955. It summarizes secondary data, looks at the men's takeover of social work, and presents primary data on two outstanding women of the period—Helen Hall and Harriett M. Bartlett.

Concept and Mentality of Outstanding Women on Becoming Achievers

Concept and Mentality of Outstanding Women on Becoming Achievers