The Shape of Red: Insider Outsider Reflections

by Ruth Hubbard, Margaret Randall

Book by Hubbard, Ruth, Randall, Margaret

206 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1988

About the author

Ruth Hubbard was a professor of biology at Harvard University, where she was the first woman to hold a tenured professorship position in biology. She authored several books challenging the male model of science.

Born Ruth Hoffmann in Vienna, Austria, she escaped Nazism as a teenager, moving with with her family to the United States. Hubbard graduated from Radcliffe College in 1944, earning an A.B. in biochemical sciences.