Plus, interviews with real-life women in STEM careers, an extensive bibliography, and a guide to women-centric science and technology organizations-all to show the many ways the geeky girls of today can help to build the future. In Wonder Women, author Sam Maggs tells the stories of the brilliant, brainy, and totally rad women in history who broke barriers as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers, and inventors. Huang Daopo, the inventor whose weaving technology revolutionized textile production in China-centuries before the cotton gin? Smart women have always been able to achieve amazing things, even when the odds were stacked against them.Mary Sherman Morgan, the rocket scientist whose liquid fuel compounds blasted the first U.S.Alice Ball, the chemist who developed an effective treatment for leprosy-only to have the credit taken by a man?.The book is 239 pages and includes an appendix, bibliography, index, and acknowledgments.Summary: A fun and feminist celebration of the forgotten women in science, technology, and beyond-from the bestselling author of The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy You may think you know women’s history pretty well. Plus, interviews with real-life women in STEM careers, an extensive bibliography, and a guide to women-centric science and technology. Whether it be their triumphs or feats, Maggs brings the most crucial details about their lives to the light and incorporates intricate illustrations by Foster-Dimino.Įach section of the book tells a different life, showing how similar women’s fights were. In Wonder Women, author Sam Maggs tells the stories of the brilliant, brainy, and totally rad women in history who broke barriers as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers, and inventors. Using this method, she takes several women’s stories in each chapter and manages to go in-depth about their experiences. Women in science, medicine, espionage, innovation, and adventure.
Maggs breaks down the book into different sections. In a book written by Sam Maggs and illustrated by Sophia Foster-Dimino, “Wonder Women” tells many unique, edge-of-your-seat, and incredible stories of powerful women in history who set the precedent for women generations after their triumphs to remain strong in the face of adversity and to always fight for your right to be heard as well as seen. “Wonder Women” by Sam Maggs along with the illustrations by Sophia Foster-Dimino
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