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Author: Lexi Jamieson Marsh ,
Ellen Currano ,
Kelsey Vance ,
Draper White
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231198042
ISBN 10: 0231198043
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 12 May 2020
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The stories within are compelling and I wish I had been able to read them before I embarked on my own career as a scientist. The contributors' and editors' voices emanate clearly from the pages. The writing is an impressive combination of approachable yet sophisticated, powerful yet playful, meticulously researched and fact-based, yet balanced with personal, often painful narratives. -- Lindsay Zanno, Head of Paleontology, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
The stories within are compelling, and I wish I had been able to read them before I embarked on my own career as a scientist. The contributors' and editors' voices emanate clearly from the pages. The writing is an impressive combination of approachable yet sophisticated, powerful yet playful, meticulously researched and fact-based, yet balanced with personal, often painful narratives. -- Lindsay Zanno, head of paleontology, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences The Bearded Lady Project invites us all think more critically about the role of gender and gender bias in the sciences. This project shows the true depths of diversity that exist within the fields of paleontology and geology and highlights the profound challenges that still exist for those who do not fit in with stereotypical ideal of who a scientist is. For some, viewing the images in this book will feel uncomfortable. Take that discomfort, examine it closely, and then read every single essay in this volume. The diverse perspectives and stories from so many voices in paleontology and geology, paired with critical essays by scholars of gender and performance studies, provides a depth and context to the Bearded Lady Project which elevate this work beyond a compendium of personal narratives and turn it into a deeply insightful and necessary contribution to our understanding of what it means to be a scientist. -- Phoebe A. Cohen, associate professor of geosciences, Williams College The Bearded Lady Project is a necessary novelty. It's snarky, beautiful, and increasingly powerful in the evolution of its message: Don't ever assume you know what a scientist looks like. These essays-critical, poignant examinations of societal and historical perceptions of genius-remind us how much scientists have to say about the world in which their research takes place. -- Emily Graslie, chief curiosity correspondent at the Field Museum of Natural History The portraits in The Bearded Lady Project intentionally cause double takes, forcing the viewer to look, then look again. But their real power lies in how they require us to look inward and see that antediluvian ideas about who can and cannot do science still linger. The accompanying stories of remarkable women in paleontology make one hopeful that soon these old stereotypes will finally go extinct. -- Marcia Bjornerud, professor of geosciences at Lawrence University, author of <i>Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World</i>
Author Information
Lexi Jamieson Marsh is the founder of the independent production company On Your Feet Entertainment and the director and producer of The Bearded Lady Project short and feature-length documentary films. She is currently visiting assistant professor of media and culture at Miami University. Ellen Currano is a paleontologist at the University of Wyoming with a joint appointment in the Department of Botany and the Department of Geology and Geophysics. Her research focuses on the response of ancient forest communities to environmental changes.
