'“[A] woman’s ovaries belong to the commonwealth; she is simply their custodian,” American physician Ely van de Warker wrote in 1906.' (Introduction)
'Vera Scantlebury waved goodbye to her family as the HMTS Morea set sail from Port Melbourne pier in 1914. The preceding year, she had graduated with a medical degree from the University of Melbourne and won a position as a junior resident medical officer at Melbourne Hospital.' (Introduction)
'The purity of mathematics has inspired a number of significant writers. Lewis Carroll, for example, incorporated mathematical concepts with hilarious absurdist themes in the narratives of all Alice books.' (Introduction)
