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Has feminism changed science / Londa Schiebinger.

By:

Schiebinger, Londa L [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999Description: x, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0674381130
9780674381131

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Has feminism changed science?DDC classification:

306.45082
500.82 21

LOC classification:

Q130 .S29 1999

Contents:

I. Women in Science. 1. Hypatia's Heritage. 2. Meters of Equity. 3. The Pipeline -- II. Gender in the Cultures of Science. 4. The Clash of Cultures. 5. Science and Private Life -- III. Gender in the Substance of Science. 6. Medicine. 7. Primatology, Archaeology, and Human Origins. 8. Biology. 9. Physics and Math --

Review: "Have feminist perspectives brought any positive changes to scientific knowledge? Schiebinger provides a subtle and nuanced gender analysis of the physical sciences, medicine, archaeology, evolutionary biology, primatology, and developmental biology. She also shows that feminist scientists have developed new theories, asked new questions, and opened new fields in many of these areas."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Have feminist perspectives brought any positive changes to scientific knowledge? Schiebinger provides a subtle and nuanced gender analysis of the physical sciences, medicine, archaeology, evolutionary biology, primatology, and developmental biology. She also shows that feminist scientists have developed new theories, asked new questions, and opened new fields in many of these areas."--Jacket.

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