★The stories of eight remarkable female scientists who were also activists, feminists, pacifists, and revolutionaries in some ways.
★From female doctors to female scientists involved in the Manhattan Project, this book gives us a glimpse into the power of women, as well as their struggle, their accomplishments and contributions.

Eight women who lived between the late 19th century and the present day.
Eight female scientists who were also activists, feminists, pacifists, queer and revolutionaries in some ways.
Each of them had her own way, each following a unique and unrepeatable existential trajectory.

From Sara Josephine Baker at the forefront of the struggle for the renewal of public health, to Laura Conti, a partisan, doctor and environmentalist. From Sophia Jex-Blake, who led a battle for women's access to studies of medicine in university, to Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale, crystallographer and prison reformer. From Evelyn Gentry Hooker, who spent herself on the depathologization of homosexuality, to Lynn Conway, transgender computer scientist fired by IBM for wanting to be herself. From Roger Arliner Young, an African American zoologist grappling with the sexism and racism of her time, to Lilli Schwenk Hornig, one of the very few women involved in the Manhattan Project.

SIMONE PETRALIA is a journalist and works in publishing. He is a member of the scientific committee of CIRSDe, Interdisciplinary Center for Research and Studies of Women and Gender.