Women, Science, and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies

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Mary Wyer
Psychology Press, 2001 - 376 pages
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.
 

Contents

SECTION 1
1
Out of the Frying Pan
9
An Interview with Evelyn Hammonds
17
The Influence of Peer Culture on Women in College
26
A Metanarrative on Science and the Scientific Method
36
AND INTO THE FIRE
42
Nepotism and Sexism in PeerReview
46
Gender Politics at the Apex of Science
53
Sociobiology Biological Determinism and Human Behavior
175
Womens Place Gendered Space
194
SECTION 4
209
Can There Be a Feminist Science?
216
The Case of the Electromechanical Vibrator
223
Is Primatology a Feminist Science?
239
On the Paradox of the Sex Question in Feminism and in Science
254
SECTION 5
275

Gender Differences in Career Attainments
69
SECTION 2
79
Sex Science and Education
88
Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals
99
Men and Women in Advertisements in Science
117
An Update
132
SECTION 3
143
Science Facts and Feminism
153
Case Management of Intersexed Infants
161
Premenstrual Syndrome Work Discipline and Anger
285
A Feminist Analysis of the Present Crisis
302
the Social Construction of Male Reproduction and the Politics of Fetal Harm
312
Feminists A1 Projects and Cyberfutures
332
CONTRIBUTORS
355
PERMISSIONS
357
INDEX
361
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