Women, Science, and Technology
A Reader in Feminist Science Studies, 2nd Edition
Edited by Mary Wyer, Mary Barbercheck, Donna Giesman Cookmeyer, Hatice Ozturk, Marta Wayne
List Price: $54.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-96040-3
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 05/29/2008
- Pages: 408
Request complimentary copy (for course adoption only)
Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction: Science, Technology, and Feminism
SECTION 1: High Hopes, Broken Promises, and Persistence: Educating Women for Science and Engineering Careers
Education: Out of the Frying Pan …
The Anomaly of a Woman in Physics Evelyn Fox Keller
Never Meant to Survive, A Black Woman's Journey: An Interview with Evelynn Hammonds Aimée Sands
Snow Brown and the Seven Detergents Banu Subramaniam
The Shoulders of Giants Dara Horn
Careers: … And into the Fire
Nepotism and Sexism in Peer Review Christine Wennerás and Agnes Wold
Nine Decades, Nine Women, Ten Nobel Prizes: Gender Politics at the Apex of Science Hilary Rose
Asian Americans and the Gender Gap in Science and Technology Jackyung Lee
Walking a Tightrope: The Feminist Life of a Drosophila Biologist Marta Wayne
SECTION 2: Stereotypes, Rationality, and Masculinity
Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals, Carol Cohn
Science, Sex, and Stereotypical Images in Scientific Advertising Mary Barbercheck
The Aliens Have Landed! Reflections on the Rhetoric of Biological Invasions Banu Subramaniam
The Power and the Pleasure? A Research Agenda for "Making Gender Stick" to Engineers Wendy Faulkner
SECTION 3: Technologies Born of Difference: How Ideas about Women and Men Shape Science and Technology
A Medical Fit for Contraceptives Andrea Tone
Sociobiology, Biological Determinism and Human Behavior Ruth Bleier
The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants Suzanne Kessler
The Bare Bones of Sex: Sex and Gender Anne Fausto-Sterling
SECTION 4: The Next Generation: Bringing Feminist Perspectives into Science and Technology Studies
Gender and Science: An Update Evelyn Fox Keller
The Paradox of Feminist Primatology Linda Fedigan
Socially Camouflaged Technologies: The Case of the Electromechanical Vibrator Rachel Maines
On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and New Imaging Technologies Anne Balsamo
SECTION 5: Reproducible Insights: Women Creating Knowledge, Social Policy, and Change with Elizabeth Adams and Jennifer Schneider
Engendering Environmental Thinking: A Feminist Analysis of the Present Crisis Ruth Perry
Fulfilling Technology’s Promise: Enforcing the Rights of Women Caught in the Global High-Tech Underclass Shruti Rana
Premenstrual Syndrome, Work Discipline, and Anger Emily Martin
Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy Arrangements, and the Politics of Motherhood Laura Woliver


