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The Sky is for Everyone
Edited by Virginia Trimble and David A Weintraub
Princeton University Press £25 ● HB
This book will make you both very angry and amazingly awestruck all at the same time. The energy and enthusiasm in the editors’ prelude alone is infectious. This is a book with an agenda: to allow women – many of whom have battled decades of institutional sexism – to tell the stories of their lives and work. This stands out from other women in science books, partly due to the sheer number of women included and partly because of the breadth of experiences it incorporates, all told in the women’s own words.
