Season 2 The Way of Progress

In this season, we share the stories of five women who made significant contributions to math and science:  Beatrice Hill Tinsley, Chien-Shiung Wu, Emmy Noether, Maria Agnesi, and Karen Sparck-Jones.

Episode 1:  Beatrice Hill Tinsley

Marcia Bartusiak. “Chasing Galaxies.” Natural History. April 1, 2012.

Mark Birch. “The Mayor and the Physicist.” Taranaki Daily News. July 28, 2001.

Dennis Overbye. “Beatrice Tinsley, Astronomer Who Saw the Course of the Universe.” New York Times. July 18, 2018.

Rebecca Priestly. “Beatrice Muriel Tinsley.” Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. 2018.

“She Studies the Stars.” Grand Prairie Daily News. June 27, 1972, p. 5.

“Space Pioneer’s Heavenly Quest.” Taranaki Daily News. July 20 2016.

Jess Staufenberg. “Beatrice Tinsley.” The Independent. January 27, 2016.

Michelle Sutton. “A Star Among Stars.” Taranaki Daily News. September 9, 2006.

Beatrice Tinsley and D. Meier.  “The Detectability of Young Galaxies.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 296, No. 1419, The Origin and Early Evolution of the Galaxies(Mar. 6, 1980), pp. 303-308.

Virginia Trimble. “Excerpts from My Daughter Beatrice.” Journal of College Science Teaching, Vol. 17, No. 2 (NOV 1987), pp. 112-115, 171.

Episode 2: Chien-Shiung Wu

Noemie Benczer-Koller. “Chien-Shiung Wu.” National Academy of Sciences. 2009.

“Chien-Shiung Wu, 84, Dies.” New York Times. February 18, 1997.

“Chien-Shiung Wu Awarded Pupin Medal.” Xinhua General News Service. November 19, 1991.

Leon Lidofsky. “Chien-Shiung Wu.”  Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 145, No. 1 (Mar., 2001), pp.115-126.

James Miller. “Top Honors Belong to Lady Scientist.” The Circleville Herald. February 23, 1963, p. 4.

“Peking Banquet for Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu and Dr. Chia-Liu Yuan.” Xinhua General News Service. September 18, 1977.

Rachel Swaby.  Headstrong.  Broadway Books, 2015.

Anthony Tucker. “Chien-Shiung Wu: Breaking Down the Laws of Parity.” The Guardian. May 13, 1997.

Chen Weihua. “Woman Scientist Well Remembered in China, US.” China Daily. March 21, 2016.

Episode 3: Emmy Noether

B.S.M. “Prof. Dr. Emmy Noether.” Current Science, Vol. 4, No. 3 (SEPTEMBER 1935), p. 183

John Ernest.  “Mathematics and Sex.” The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 83, No. 8 (Oct., 1976), pp. 595-614.

“Emmy Noether: Creative Mathematical Genius.” Women in Science. San Diego Supercomputer Center 1997.

Clark H. Kimberling. “Emmy Noether.”  The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 79, No. 2 (Feb., 1972), pp. 136-149.

Peter J. Olver. “Emmy Noether: Symmetry and Conservation; History and Impact.” University of Minnesota Mathematics Presentation. June 2015.

Peter Roquette.  “Emmy Noether and Hermann Weyl.” Hermann Weyl Talk Manuscript. September 10, 2006.

Rachel Swaby.  Headstrong.  Broadway Books, 2015.

Episode 4: Maria Agnesi

Paula Findlen. “Calculations of Faith.” Historia Mathematica. 38, 2011, pp. 248-291.

Helen Grossman. “Pioneer Welfare Workers Among Catholic Women.” The Catholic Advance. October 13, 1923, p. 16. And The Tablet. December 1, 1923, p. 13.

Massimo Mazzotti. “Maria Gaetana Agnesi.” Isis, Vol. 92, No. 4 (Dec., 2001), pp. 657-683.

T.F. Mulcrone. “The Names of the Curve of Agnesi.” The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 64, No. 5 (May, 1957), pp. 359-361.

Rachel Swaby.  Headstrong.  Broadway Books, 2015.

“A Wonderful Woman.” The Star Democrat. October 30, 1877, p. 1.

Episode 5: Karen Sparck-Jones

Nellie Bowles. “Karen Sparck Jones.” The New York Times. January 2, 2019.

Martyn Campbell-Kelly. “Professor Karen Sparck Jones.” The Independent. April 12, 2007.

Karen I. B. Sparck Jones, Gerald J. M. Gazdar and Roger M. Needham. “Introduction: Combining Formal Theories and Statistical Data in Natural Language Processing.” Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol.358, No. 1769, Computers, Language and Speech: Formal Theories and Statistical Data (Apr.15, 2000), pp. 1227-1238.

Dennis Normile. “The Search for Mr. Goodfile Generates New Online Tools.” Science, New Series, Vol. 276, No. 5318 (Jun. 6, 1997), pp. 1498-1499.

“Obituary of Karen Sparck Jones.” The Daily Telegraph. April 12, 2007.

Brian Runciman. “Karen Spark Jones Interview.” Leaders in Computing. 2007.

Karen Sparck Jones. “Some Points in Time.” Computational Linguistics, 31 (1), 2005, pp. 1-14.

Season 1 Major Decisions

In this season, we share the stories of five women who made profoundly life altering decisions at specific moments in their lives:  Lois Weber, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wells, Nina Spies, and Qiu Jin.

Episode 1:  Lois Weber

Martin F. Norden. Lois Weber: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series). University Press of Mississippi. 2019.

Kino Lorber.  Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers.  DVD/Blu-Ray, 2018.

Brenda Scott Royce.  Lois Weber.  American National Biography, 2015.

Emma-Lindsay Squier.  “Why Doesn’t Hollywood Hire More Women?” Atlanta Constitution.  April 17, 1921.

Shelley Stamp.  “’Exit Flapper, Enter Woman,’ or Lois Weber in Jazz Age Hollywood.” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media. 51(2)  Fall 2010: 358-387.

Shelley Stamp.  Lois Weber in Early Hollywood.  University of California Press, 2015.

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Episode 2:  Mary Wollstonecraft

Margot Beart.  “’Wither am I Wandering?’ A journey into the Self – Mary Wollstonecraft’s travels in Scandinavia, 1795.” Literator 25(1) April 2004: 73-89.

Charlotte Gordon.  Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley.  Random House, 2015.

Mary Wollstonecraft.  “Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark” 1796.  Oxford World Classics edition, 2009.

Mary Wollstonecraft.  “Vindication of the Rights of Woman” 1792.

Episode 3:  Mary Wells

Peter Benjaminson. Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown’s First Superstar. Chicago Review Press. 2012.

Russ DeVault.  Music Hits (and misses) of Mary Wells – Kids and touring balance the might-have-beens.  Atlanta Journal and Constitution.  15 August 1987, L/34.

Berry Gordy. To Be Loved.  Rosetta Books, 2013.

Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, & Forever.  1983  DVD.

Motortown Revue 40^th Anniversary Collection (Live). Streaming.

The recording of ‘My Guy’.  Detroit Free Press.  13 January 2013

Caroline Rees.  Martha Reeves: My Six Best Albums – Marvin Gaye, Mary Wells and more.  The Express.  9 March 2018.

Mary Wells.  The Ultimate Collection.  CD/Streaming.

Susan Whitall.  Women of Motown: An Oral History.  Bookbaby, Second Edition, 2017.

Adam White.  Motown: Sound of Young America.  London: Thames & Hudson, 2016.

Episode 4:  Nina Spies

“Celebrated Romance is Recalled.”  Los Angeles Evening Express, March 8, 1919, p. 12.

“A Disreputable ‘Faker’.”  Chicago Tribune.  November 22, 1887, p. 1.

James Green.  Death in Haymarket.  Anchor Books, 2007.

“In a New Part.” Illinois Staats-Zeitung, February 4, 1887.

“Mrs. Nina Spies.” Illinois Staats-Zeitung, February 2, 1887.

“Nina Van Zandt Again in Limelight.”  Weekly Town Standard.  November 15, 1919, p. 8.

“Nina’s New Romance.”  Buffalo Evening News.  July 18, 1891, p. 3.

Franklin Rosemont and David Roediger, eds. Haymarket Scrapbook.  Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1986.

Christopher Thale.  “Haymarket and May Day.” Encyclopedia of Chicago.  Chicago Historical Society, 2005.

Mark R. Wilson.  “Kirk (James S.) & Co.” Encyclopedia of Chicago.  Chicago Historical Society, 2005.

Episode 5:  Qiu Jin

Charlotte L. Beahan.  “Feminism and Nationalism in the Chinese Women’s Press, 1902-1911.”  Modern China.  v 1 #4 Oct. 1975, pp. 379-416.

Joan Judge.  “Talent, Virtue, and the Nation: Chinese Nationalisms and Female Subjectivities in the Early Twentieth Century.”  The American Historical Review.  v 106 #3 June 2001, pp. 765-803.

Amy Qin.  “Qiu Jin.” New York Times.  September 10, 2018.

Ellen Widmer.  “Foreign Travel through a Woman’s Eyes: Shan Shili’s ‘Guimao luxing ji’ in Local and Global Perspective.”  The Journal of Asian Studies.  v 65 #4 Nov. 2006, pp. 763-791.

Eugene Y. Wang.  “Perceptions of Change, Changes in Perception – West Lake as Contested Site/Sight in the Wake of the 1911 Revolution.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture.  v 12 #2 Fall 2000, pp. 73-122.

Hu Ying.  “Burying Autumn: Poetry, Friendship, and Loss.”  Harvard East Asian Monographs.  v 391, 2016.