The Bearded Lady Project : : Challenging the Face of Science /

The Bearded Lady Project : : Challenging the Face of Science / / ed. by Ellen Currano, Lexi Jamieson Marsh.

During a discussion of how women are treated in traditionally male-dominated fields, paleobotanist Ellen Currano lamented to filmmaker Lexi Jamieson Marsh that, as the only young and female faculty member in her department, she was not taken seriously by her colleagues. If only she had the right amo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Badgley, Catherine,
Behrensmeyer, Anna K.,
Chin, Karen,
Currano, Ellen,
Diekman, Amanda,
Guenther, Amy K.,
Hall, Ashley,
Hamlin, Kimberly A.,
Hawkes, Andrea D.,
Hickman, Carole S.,
Hlusko, Leslea J.,
Hunt-Foster, ReBecca,
Jacobs, Bonnie,
Kelley, Patricia H.,
Marsh, Lexi Jamieson,
Pruss, Sara B.,
Su, Denise F.,
Vance, Kelsey,
White, Draper,
White, Lisa,
HerausgeberIn:
Currano, Ellen,
Marsh, Lexi Jamieson,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 11 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Part I: Why Challenge the Face of Science
  • 1. “Pictures in Our Heads”: Challenging Stereotypes of Scientists and Science
  • 2. What’s in a Name?
  • 3. Sex, Science, and Beards
  • 4. What Is Paleontology?
  • 5. Spaces Paleontologists Inhabit
  • 6. The Lost Legacy
  • 7. The Power of Contradiction
  • Part II: Women in Paleontology
  • Stereotypes
  • 8. “Fitting In”: Freedom in the
  • 9. A Female Paleontologist in the 1970s and 1980s
  • 10. From Microfossils to Museums: Reflections on My Journey as an Earth Scientist
  • 11. Can You Be a Paleontologist Without a Ph.D.? (The Answer Is Yes)
  • 12. The Path Is Not Always Straight
  • 13. A Less Traveled and More Meandering Path
  • Women
  • 14. Definition: Woman
  • 15. The Moments When I Am Not a Woman
  • 16. My Love-Hate Relationship . . . with Waders
  • 17. The Balancing Act
  • 18. Being Brave
  • Gender
  • 19. Definition: Gender
  • 20. Just a Paleontologist
  • 21. Performing Gender in Paleontology
  • 22. Taking Off the Beard for Good
  • Part III: Behind the Lens
  • 23. Behind the Lens: Filming a Documentary
  • 24. Being with Artists in the Field
  • 25. Creating Portraits for The Bearded Lady Project
  • 26. Field Notes
  • Why Diversify Science
  • Pledge for Equality in the Sciences
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • The Photographers

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