Women, science, and technology : a reader in feminist science studies /
Women, science, and technology : a reader in feminist science studies /
edited by Mary Wyer [and others].
- xxviii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Anomaly of a woman in physics / Never meant to survive, a Black woman's journey : an interview with Evelynn Hammonds / Gender constructs and career commitment : the influence of peer culture on women in college / Snow brown and the seven detergents : a metanarrative on science and the scientific method / Shoulders of giants / Nepotism and sexism in peer-review / Nine decades, nine women, ten Nobel prizes : gender politics at the apex of science / Careers of men and women scientists : gender differences in career attainments / Sex, science, and education / Sex and death in the rational world of defense intellectuals / Mixed messages : men and women in advertisements in science / Gender and science : an update / Science, facts, and feminism / Medical construction of gender : case management of intersexed infants / Sociobiology, biological determinism, and human behavior / Built environment : women's place, gendered space / Can there be a feminist science? / Socially camouflaged technologies : the case of the electromechanical vibrator / Rachel Maines -- Is Primatology a feminist science? / Naked sex in exile : on the paradox of the "sex question" in feminism and in science / Premenstrual syndrome, work discipline, and anger / Engendering environmental thinking : a feminist analysis of the present crisis / Between fathers and fetuses : the social construction of male reproduction and the politics of fetal harm / Feminist AI projects and cyberfutures / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Aimee Sands -- Margaret A. Eisenhart and Dorothy C. Holland -- Banu Subramaniam -- Dara Horn -- Christine Wennerás and Agnes Wold -- Hilary Rose -- Harriet Zuckerman -- Janice Law Trecker -- Carol Cohn -- Mary Barbercheck -- Evelyn Fox Keller -- Ruth Hubbard -- Suzanne J. Kessler -- Ruth Bleier -- Judy Wajcman -- Helen E. Longino -- Linda Marie Fedigan -- Cynthia Kraus -- Emily Martin -- Ruth Perry -- Cynthia R. Daniels -- Alison Adam.
This reader provides an introduction to the gendering of science and the impact women are making in laboratories around the world. The republished essays included in this collection are both personal tales from women scientists and essays on the nature of science itself, covering such controversial issues like the under-representation of women in science, reproductive technology, sociobiology, evolutionary theory, and the notion of objective science.
0415926076 9780415926072 0415926068 9780415926065
00046452
Women in science
Women in technology
Feminism and science
Q130 / .W672 2001
500.82
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Anomaly of a woman in physics / Never meant to survive, a Black woman's journey : an interview with Evelynn Hammonds / Gender constructs and career commitment : the influence of peer culture on women in college / Snow brown and the seven detergents : a metanarrative on science and the scientific method / Shoulders of giants / Nepotism and sexism in peer-review / Nine decades, nine women, ten Nobel prizes : gender politics at the apex of science / Careers of men and women scientists : gender differences in career attainments / Sex, science, and education / Sex and death in the rational world of defense intellectuals / Mixed messages : men and women in advertisements in science / Gender and science : an update / Science, facts, and feminism / Medical construction of gender : case management of intersexed infants / Sociobiology, biological determinism, and human behavior / Built environment : women's place, gendered space / Can there be a feminist science? / Socially camouflaged technologies : the case of the electromechanical vibrator / Rachel Maines -- Is Primatology a feminist science? / Naked sex in exile : on the paradox of the "sex question" in feminism and in science / Premenstrual syndrome, work discipline, and anger / Engendering environmental thinking : a feminist analysis of the present crisis / Between fathers and fetuses : the social construction of male reproduction and the politics of fetal harm / Feminist AI projects and cyberfutures / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Aimee Sands -- Margaret A. Eisenhart and Dorothy C. Holland -- Banu Subramaniam -- Dara Horn -- Christine Wennerás and Agnes Wold -- Hilary Rose -- Harriet Zuckerman -- Janice Law Trecker -- Carol Cohn -- Mary Barbercheck -- Evelyn Fox Keller -- Ruth Hubbard -- Suzanne J. Kessler -- Ruth Bleier -- Judy Wajcman -- Helen E. Longino -- Linda Marie Fedigan -- Cynthia Kraus -- Emily Martin -- Ruth Perry -- Cynthia R. Daniels -- Alison Adam.
This reader provides an introduction to the gendering of science and the impact women are making in laboratories around the world. The republished essays included in this collection are both personal tales from women scientists and essays on the nature of science itself, covering such controversial issues like the under-representation of women in science, reproductive technology, sociobiology, evolutionary theory, and the notion of objective science.
0415926076 9780415926072 0415926068 9780415926065
00046452
Women in science
Women in technology
Feminism and science
Q130 / .W672 2001
500.82