Book Description
The Gender and Science Reader brings together key articles in a comprehensive investigations of the nature and practice of science.
Author : Muriel Lederman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 49,59 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 9780415213585
The Gender and Science Reader brings together key articles in a comprehensive investigations of the nature and practice of science.
Author : Evelyn Fox Keller
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,72 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780300153613
Why are objectivity and reason characterized as male and subjectively and feeling as female? How does this characterization affect the goals and methods of scientific enquiry? This groundbreaking work explores the possibilities of a gender-free science and the conditions that could make such a possibility a reality. "Keller’s book opens up a whole new range of ideas for anyone who cares to think about the history of science, that is, the history of the modern world. . . Let us be glad to be in times when such a sparkling, innovative. . . book can be produced, a book to start all of us thinking in new directions.”--Ian Hacking, New Republic "A brilliant and sensitive undertaking that does credit not only to feminist scholarship but, in the end, to science as well.”--Barbara Ehrenreich, Mother Jones "This book represents the expression of a particular feminist perspective made all the more compelling by Keller’s evident commitment to and understanding of science. As a lively and important contribution to the scholarship of science, it will undoubtedly stimulate argument and controversy.”--Helen Longino, Texas Humanist "Provocative arguments, presented with authority.”--Kirkus Reviews "Consistently thoughtful, provocative, and interconnected. . . A well-made book that will be useful in upper-level undergraduate and graduate women’s studies, philosophy, and history of science.”--E.C. Patterson, Choice "Written with grace and clarity, [this book] will stand as an important contribution to feminist theory, to the sociology of knowledge and to the continuing critique of the established scientific method.”--Lillian B. Rubin "A powerful book.”--Jessie Bernard
Author : Caroline Sweetman
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780855984229
This collection of articles from Gender and Development considers technologies of many kinds, including those intended to save womens labour, to enable them to control their fertility and to learn and communicate using computer technology.
Author : Nina Lerman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2003-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801872594
McGaw; Joy Parr, Simon Fraser University.
Author : Ann B. Shteir
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781584656036
A collection of fifteen original essays analyzing gender in the imagery of science.
Author : Jane McCredie
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Gender identity
ISBN : 9781442219625
Jane McCredie takes readers on a tour of gender, the science and biology as well as the psychology and sociology, of what it means to be a boy or a girl, a man or a woman. Challenging commonly held beliefs, she reconsiders our notions and brings us to a better understanding of gender.
Author : Mary Wyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135055416
Women, Science, and Technology is an ideal reader for courses in feminist science studies. This third edition fully updates its predecessor with a new introduction and twenty-eight new readings that explore social constructions mediated by technologies, expand the scope of feminist technoscience studies, and move beyond the nature/culture paradigm.
Author : Janet A. Kourany
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN :
The only book of its kind, The Gender of Science inspires readers to critically reflect on science in order to help them become more socially responsible in their dealings with science. Provides a diversity of scientific fields and aspects of science. Ideal for anyone interested in learning about gender and science, the philosophy of science, science, technology, and values, and in gender studies/women's studies.
Author : Cyd Cipolla
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0295742593
Queer Feminist Science Studies takes a transnational, trans-species, and intersectional approach to this cutting-edge area of inquiry between women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and science and technology studies (STS). The essays here “queer”—or denaturalize and make strange—ideas that are taken for granted in both areas of study. Reimagining the meanings of and relations among queer and feminist theories and a wide range of scientific disciplines, contributors foster new critical and creative knowledge-projects that attend to shifting and uneven operations of power, privilege, and dispossession, while also highlighting potentialities for uncertainty, subversion, transformation, and play. Theoretically and rhetorically powerful, these essays also take seriously the materiality of “natural” objects and phenomena: bones, voles, chromosomes, medical records and more all help substantiate answers to questions such as, What is sex? How are race, gender, sexuality, and other systems of differences co-constituted? The foundational essays and new writings collected here offer a generative resource for students and scholars alike, demonstrating the ingenuity and dynamism of queer feminist scholarship.
Author : Londa L. Schiebinger
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,73 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780813535319
Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature--one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era. When plants were found to reproduce sexually, eighteenth-century botanists ascribed to them passionate relations, polyandrous marriages, and suicidal incest, and accounts of steamy plant sex began to infiltrate the botanical literature of the day. Naturalists also turned their attention to the great apes just becoming known to eighteenth-century Europeans, clothing the females in silk vestments and training them to sip tea with the modest demeanor of English matrons, while imagining the males of the species fully capable of ravishing women.