She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff
She’s Such a Geek is a groundbreaking anthology that celebrates women who have flourished in the male-dominated realms of technical and cultural arcana.Editors Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders bring together a diverse range of critical and personal essays about the meaning of female nerdhood by...
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She’s Such a Geek is a groundbreaking anthology that celebrates women who have flourished in the male-dominated realms of technical and cultural arcana.Editors Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders bring together a diverse range of critical and personal essays about the meaning of female nerdhood by women who are in love with genomics, obsessed with blogging, learned about sex from Dungeons and Dragons, and aren't afraid to match wits with men or computers. More than anything, She's Such a Geek is a celebration and call to arms: it's a hopeful book which looks forward to a day when women will invent molecular motors, design the next ultra-tiny supercomputer, and run the government.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781580051903 (1580051901)
Publish date: November 13th 2006
Publisher: Seal Press
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Writing,
Essays,
Computer Science,
Science,
Technology,
Computers,
Anthologies,
Feminism,
Gender
I was really disappointed in this book. I had very high expectations when I ordered it, but it was very uneven when I actually read it. Basically, it's a series of brief memoirs by women in "geeky" fields (science, math, gaming, etc). None of the pieces are particularly well-written and several of t...