If you fail, there won't be another woman on the Antarctic continent for a generation / Irene C. Peden -- If women are in science and science is in the Antarctic, then women belong there / Mary Odile Cahoon -- We persevered in a world that did not want us to succeed, and we did, and we did it together / Ann Bancroft -- Survival mode / Sue Giller -- Skiing with the big girls: an intense experience of relationships in an incredible environment / Anne Dal Vera -- I really felt that there were spirits on the continent that were taking care of us / Sunniva Sorby -- Studying polar women / Gloria Leon -- You just get to stand there and see how nature reacts to you / Paige Martin -- I was amazed at how much I was affected by Antarctica / Kerry-Anne Mammone -- I get a high from the Antarctic / Sarah, research technician -- It's just not a routine stop in life / S. McDonald -- This is kind of like being on the Moon / Jane M. Alstott -- I'm glad I did it, but I can never turn the clock back to spend those six months with my son / Eva Flores -- I'm more adventuresome than the guys who went to work on Wall Street / Karen, attorney in the Navy -- A little slice of heaven / Berneice F. Albright -- The silence was incredible / Kathy Bojack -- I went to Antarctica when my children were all married / Sandra Kenady -- I don't mean to exaggerate when I say it was the best decision I ever made / Janet Gluck -- Navy women in the Antarctic / Marie D. Thomas, Patricia J. Thomas -- Women out of place: the gendered geography of Antarctica / Joni Seager -- The psychology of social and personal life on an isolated frontier: U.S. women in the Antarctic / Jacqueline S. Weinstock.