Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine

Name: Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine
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ISBN: 9780226120249

ISBN-10: 0226120244

ISBN-13: 9780226120249

Edition: 2001

Authors: Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, Londa Schiebinger

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The essays in this volume explore how feminist theory has had an impact on research in the biological and social sciences, in medicine and in technology, often providing the impetus for changing theoretical underpinnings and practices of research.

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.91" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Angela N. H. Creager is the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University.

Londa Schiebinger is John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University.



Foreword



Acknowledgments



Introduction



Science



Doing Social Science as a Feminist: The Engendering of Archeology




The Paradox of Feminist Primatology: The Goddess's Discipline?




Revisiting Women, Gender, and Feminism in Developmental Biology




Making a Difference: Feminist Movement and Feminist Critiques of Science



Technology



Feminism and the Rethinking of the History of Technology




Man the Maker, Woman the Consumer: The Consumption Junction Revisited




What Difference Has Feminism Made to Engineering in the Twentieth Century?




Boy's Toys and Women's Work: Feminism Engages Software




Medicine, Technology, and Gender in the History of Prenatal Diagnosis



Medicine



On Bodies, Technologies, and Feminisms




Rationality, Feminism, and Mind




Gendering the Epidemic: Feminism and the Epidemic of HIV/AIDS in the United States, 1981 - 1999



Contributors


Index