
Women, Science and Technology
A Reader in Feminist Science Studies
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 25. January 2001
Book
Hardback
408 pages
978-0-415-92606-5 (ISBN)
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Description
Feminist science studies is a relatively new and exciting field. Women, Science and Technology will fast become the definitive choice for readers seeking an introduction to the way feminism is changing science studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-92606-5 (9780415926065)
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Mary Wyer | Donna Giesman | Mary Barbercheck
Women, Science and Technology
A Reader in Feminist Science Studies
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01/2001
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€63.32
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Content
General Introduction: Science and Feminism Section One: High Hopes, Broken Promises, and Persistence: Educating Women for Scientific Careers The Anomaly of a Woman in Physics, Evelyn Fox Keller Never Meant to Survive, a Black Woman's Journey: An Interview with Evelynn Hammonds, Aimee Sands Gender Constructs and Career Commitment: The Influence of Peer Culture on Women in College, M.A. Eisenhart and D.C. Holland Snow Brown and the Seven Detergents: A Metanarrative on Science and the Scientific Method, Banu Subramaniam The Shoulders of Giants, Dana Horn Nepotism and Sexism in Peer Review, Christine Wenneras and Agnes Wold Nine Decades, Nine Women, Ten Nobel Prizes: Gender Politics at the Apex of Science, Hilary Rose The Careers of Men and Women Scientists: Gender Differences in Career Attainments, Harriet Zuckerman Section Two: Science, Sex, and Stereotypes: Cultural Images of Science and Scientists Sex, Science and Education, Janice Law Trecker Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals, Carol Cohn Mixed Messages: Men and Women in Advertisements in Science, Mary Barbercheck Gender and Science: An Update, Evelyn Fox Keller Section Three: Constructing Gender, Constructing Science: How Ideas about Women and Men Shape Science and Technology Science, Facts, and Feminism, Ruth Hubbard The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants, Suzanne Kessler Sociobiology, Biological Determinism and Human Behavior, Ruth Bleier The Built Environment: Women's Place, Gendered Space, Judy Wacjman Section Four: New Science, New Knowledge: Bringing Feminist Perspectives into Science and Technology Studies Can There Be A Feminist Science?, Helen Longino Socially Camouflaged Technologies: The Case of Electromechanical Vibrator, Rachel Maines Is Primatology a Feminist Science?, Lisa Marie Fedigan Naked Sex in Exile: On the Paradox of the 'Sex Question' in Feminism and in Science, Cynthia Kraus Section Five: Reproducible Insights: Women Creating Knowledge, Social Policy, and Change Premenstrual Syndrome, Work Discipline, and Anger, Emily Martin Engendering Environmental Thinking: A Feminist Analysis of the Present Crisis, Ruth Perry Between Fathers and Fetuses: The Social Construction of Male Reproduction and the Politics of Fetal Harm, Cynthia R. Daniels Feminist AI Projects and Cyberfutures, Alison Adam