Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hattie Elizabeth Alexander -- Dorothy Hansine Andersen -- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson -- Virginia Apgar -- Aspasia -- Mary Ellen Avery -- Florence Merriam Bailey -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Rachel Littler Bodley -- Marie Anne Victoire Gallain Boivin -- Roberta Lynn Bondar -- Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton -- E. (Estella) Eleanor Carothers -- Rachel Carson -- Mary Agnes Meara Chase -- Lin Chíao-chih -- Cornelia M. Clapp -- Edith Jane Claypole -- Jewel Plummer Cobb -- Rita Rossi Colwell -- Elizabeth Caroline Crosby -- Gladys Rowena Henry Dick -- Alice Eastwood -- Sophia Hennion Eckerson -- Rosa Smith Eigenmann -- Cornelia Bonté Sheldon Amos Elgood -- Katherine Esau -- Alice Catherine Evans -- Marilyn Gist Farquhar -- Margaret Clay Ferguson -- Katherine Foot -- Rosalind Elsie Franklin -- Charlotte Friend -- Susanna Phelps Gage -- Alessandra Giliani -- Mary Jane Guthrie -- Alice Hamilton -- Ethel Nicholson Browne Harvey -- Elizabeth Dexter Hay -- Elizabeth Lee Hazen -- Heloise -- Herrad of Landsberg -- Hope Hibbard -- Hildegard of Bingen -- Ariel Cahill Hollinshead -- Ruth Hubbard -- Ida Henrietta Hyde -- Libbie Henrietta Hyman -- Aletta Henriette Jacobs -- Sophia Jex-Blake -- Anandibai Joshee. Evelyn Fox Keller -- Frances Oldham Kelsey -- Chung-Hee Kil -- Helen Dean King -- Louisa Boyd Yeomans King -- Mimi A.R. Koehl -- Marie-Louise Lachapelle -- Rebecca Craighill Lancefield -- Elise Depew Strang L'Esperance -- Rita Levi-Montalcini -- Margaret Adaline Reed Lewis -- Martha Daniell Logan -- Jane Lubchenco -- Madge Thurlow Macklin -- Barbara McClintock -- Maria Sibylla Merian -- Ynes Mexia -- Agnes Mary Claypole Moody -- Ann Haven Morgan -- Barbara Moulton -- Elizabeth Fondal Neufeld -- Margaret Morse Nice -- Christiane Nèusslein-Volhard -- Ruth Patrick -- Deborah L. Penry -- Naomi E. Pierce -- Eliza Lucas Pinckney -- Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle -- Margie Profet -- Edith Smaw Hinckley Quimby -- Elizabeth Shull Russell -- Florence Rena Sabin -- Kate Olivia Sessions -- Lydia W. Shattuck -- Ellen Kovner Silbergeld -- Maud Caroline Slye -- Joan Argetsinger Steitz -- Nettie Maria Stevens -- Helen Brooke Taussig -- Trotula -- Mary Edwards Walker -- Anna Wessels Williams -- Cicely Delphin Williams -- Heather Williams -- Jane Cooke Wright -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow. Essays on 97 women scientists, including their developmental influences, obstacles they faced, and their efforts to contribute to their chosen professions.