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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Wayne...unusual and truly multidisciplinary collection of articles, held together by the contention that scientific research both contributes to reproducing inequalities based on gender and to documenting and challenging them. ... The intellectual level of the articles is uniformly high, and each article has its own bibliography. No comparable volume exists: it is a welcome addition to the field of feminist science studies..
–Choice, November 2001, M.H. Chaplin
Aimed at an introductory-level audience that is not expected to be familiar with science studies, the anthology can also be a vital tool for even the most seasoned researcher...The interweaving of personal anecdotes with research-oriented studies provides a rich context from which to view the experiences and roles of women in the sciences...for students, educators, researchers, and popular audiences.
–Feminist Collections
–Choice, November 2001, M.H. Chaplin
Aimed at an introductory-level audience that is not expected to be familiar with science studies, the anthology can also be a vital tool for even the most seasoned researcher...The interweaving of personal anecdotes with research-oriented studies provides a rich context from which to view the experiences and roles of women in the sciences...for students, educators, researchers, and popular audiences.
–Feminist Collections
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A zippy and insightful introduction to issues of women in science,
This review is from: Women, Science and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies (Kindle Edition)
A book about women in science that describes how vibrators were marketed in the 1920s? Why not? This "reader" includes short original documents, with discussion about how they fit into a wider view of women's studies. One of my favorites (and original to the book) is the odd coincidence of ads in publications like "Science" and "Nature" have the text "easy" and "cheap" if they show a woman in the ad photo.
The texts in this book served as the basis for a lively reading group at my university and I highly recommend it. Really, we laughed, we argued and we left different people.
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In the United States, the history of women's participation in science is entangled with debates about women's intellectual capacities and their roles and responsibilities in relation to men and children. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, United States, Evelyn Fox Keller, Harvard University Press, Snow Brown, Journal of Women, Oxford University Press, Sandra Harding, University of Chicago Press, Georgia Tech, Indiana University Press, Los Angeles, National Science Foundation, Scientific American, Popular Science Monthly, Basic Books, Ruth Bleier, Scientific Truth, Donna Haraway, New Haven, North American, American Sociological Review, Anne Fausto-Sterling, John Money, Pergamon Press New!
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In the United States, the history of women's participation in science is entangled with debates about women's intellectual capacities and their roles and responsibilities in relation to men and children. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
seven detergents, fetal health problems, electromechanical vibrator, sex mosaics, naked sex, feminist biologists, fetal harm, wartime exposures, feminist science, career attainments, paternal smoking, women scientists, intersexed infants, paternal exposures, ambiguous genitals, competence points, pregnant addict, clean bombs, competence scores, scientific productivity, manual massage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Evelyn Fox Keller, Harvard University Press, Snow Brown, Journal of Women, Oxford University Press, Sandra Harding, University of Chicago Press, Georgia Tech, Indiana University Press, Los Angeles, National Science Foundation, Scientific American, Popular Science Monthly, Basic Books, Ruth Bleier, Scientific Truth, Donna Haraway, New Haven, North American, American Sociological Review, Anne Fausto-Sterling, John Money, Pergamon Press New!
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- Myths Of Gender: Biological Theories About Women And Men, Revised Edition by Anne Fausto-Sterling on 6 pages
- Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940 by Professor Margaret W. Rossiter on page 8, page 77, and page 87
- The Mind Has No Sex?: Women in the Origins of Modern Science by Londa Schiebinger on page 68, page 214, and page 282
- The "Racial" Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future (Race, Gender, and Science) by Sandra Harding in Front Matter, page 152, and page 283
- The Science Question in Feminism by Sandra Harding in Front Matter, page 251, and page 271
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- Removing Barriers: Women in Academic Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics by Jill M. Bystydzienski on page 176, and Back Matter
- Science and Social Inequality: Feminist and Postcolonial Issues (Race and Gender in Science) by Sandra Harding in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Science, Technology, and Society: A Sociological Approach by Wenda K. Bauchspies in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies by Sergio Sismondo in Back Matter
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