Women Who Rock: A Reading List of Women in Paleontology

[Sadie Mills]

 

To celebrate Women’s History Month, we asked our Twitter and Facebook communities for recommendations of books, websites, blogs, and more, that we could add to a reading list about women in paleontology. The result is listed below. It is by no means complete, so please reply with your favorite reads about women who rock!

 

Children’s Books

• She Found Fossils, by Maria Eugenia Leone Gold
• Daring to Dig: Women in American Paleontology, by Beth Stricker
• Dinogirl: Young Paleontologist, by Denise Porcello

 

Biographies and Novels

• Discovering Dorothea: The Life of the Pioneering Fossil Hunter Dorothea Bate, by Karolyn Shindler
• The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World, by Shelly Emling
• Remarkable Creatures, by Tracy Chevalier

 

Websites

• The Bearded Lady Project- http://thebeardedladyproject.com/
• Trowel Blazers- https://trowelblazers.com/
• Daring to Dig: Women in American Paleontology- http://www.daringtodig.com/

 

Beyond Paleontology- Reads about Women in Science

• The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science, by Julie Des Jardins

 

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[Julie Niederkorn]

Thank you for listing these books!  I look forward to checking them out.

[Author]

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