ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the reader to the basic biographical details of Mildred Trotter and details the aims of this book to address her life, the lives of her contemporaries who were women and marginalized people in physical and forensic anthropology, sexism, and scientific and social racism within the discipline. Details are also presented on the author’s background, research sources, and the relevance of this topic to the currently majority-female composition of the field of forensic anthropology.
