Women, Science, and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science StudiesMary 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 |
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