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Gender of Science

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ISBN-10: 0133479722

ISBN-13: 9780133479720

Edition: 2002

Authors: Janet A. Kourany

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List price: $126.65
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 5/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Who Are the Scientists?
Historically
Women in the Origins of Modern Science
Women of Third World Descent in the Sciences
Recently
Women in Science: Half In, Half Out
"How can a little girl like you teach a great big class of men?" the Chairman Said, and Other Adventures of a Woman in Science
The Anomaly of a Woman in Physics
Currently
Women Join the Ranks of Science but Remain Invisible at the Top
Creeping Toward Inclusivity in Science
What Kind of Enterprise Is Science?
Science's Aims, Methods, and Norms of Behavior
Patriarchy, Scientists, and Nuclear Warriors
Culturally Inclusive Chemistry
A World of Difference
Interviewing Women: A Contradiction in Terms
Science's Subject Matter
Have Only Men Evolved?
Empathy, Polyandry, and the Myth of the Coy Female
The Importance of Feminist Critique for Contemporary Cell Biology
The Engendering of Archaeology: Refiguring Feminist Science Studies
Still Seeking Transformation: Feminist Challenges to Psychology
Science's Social Effects
Androcentric Bias in Clinical Research
Man-Made Medicine and Women's Health: The Biopolitics of Sex/Gender and Race/Ethnicity
The New Procreative Technologies
A Question of Genius: Are Men Really Smarter than Women?
What Kind of Enterprise Ought Science to Be?
Feminist Empiricism
Subjects, Power, and Knowledge: Description and Prescription in Feminist Philosophies of Science
Epistemological Communities
Feminist Standpoint Theory
"Strong Objectivity": A Response to the New Objectivity Question
Introduction to Tomorrow's Tomorrow: The Black Woman
Feminist Postmodernism
Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
Though This Be Method, Yet There Is Madness in It: Paranoia and Liberal Epistemology