Table of Contents
Preface 1
Part 1 Genius Isn't What You Think
Chapter 1 Why You've Never Heard of Lise Meitner 13
Chapter 2 The Outrageous Bias Against Mozart's Sister 29
Chapter 3 Einstein's Wife and the Theory of Relativity 46
Chapter 4 How a Teenage Nun Painted the Last Supper 67
Chapter 5 Why Italian Women Are Better than You at Math 86
Chapter 6 Rosalind Franklin and the Truth About the Female Brain 104
Part 2 The Geniuses Among Us
Chapter 7 Why Fei-Fei Li Should Be on the Cover of Vanity Fair 117
Chapter 8 The Astrophysicist Who Does Not Need Tom Cruise 133
Chapter 9 Broadway's Tina Landau Contains Multitudes 150
Chapter 10 RBG and the Genius of Being a Cuddly Goat 166
Chapter 11 The Dark Lord Trying to Kill Off Women Scientists 180
Part 3 How Women Geniuses Fight…and Win
Chapter 12 Battling the Ariel-Cinderella Complex 199
Chapter 13 Why Oprah Wanted to Be a Beauty Queen 214
Chapter 14 Geena Davis and the Problem of Being Nice 232
Chapter 15 Frances Arnold Knew She Was Right (and Then She Won the Nobel Prize) 249
Chapter 16 How to Succeed in Business by Wearing Elegant Scarves 265
Chapter 17 Why Sally Michel Was a Genius Painter and Mrs. Milton Avery Was Not 279
Chapter 18 The Game-Changing Power of Genius Women 300
Acknowledgments 309
Notes 311
Index 325