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Gender and Science Reader

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ISBN-10: 0415213584

ISBN-13: 9780415213585

Edition: 2001

Authors: Ingrid Bartsch, Muriel Lederman

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This text brings together key writings by leading scholars to provide a comprehensive feminist analysis of the nature and practice of science.
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Book details

List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 11/16/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.89" wide x 9.72" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Women in Science
Women (Still) Need Not Apply
A Six-Year Longitudinal Study of Undergraduate Women in Engineering and Science
Nsf Employment Study Confirms Issues Facing Women, Minorities
Nepotism and Sexism in Peer-Review
Science and Science Criticism
How I Came to this Study
From Working Scientist to Feminist Critic
Creating Androcentric Science
Dominion over Nature
Selections from the Flight to Objectivity
Secrets of God, Nature, and Life
Methods and Values
The Science Wars
Analyzing Gendered Science
Are There Feminist Methodologies Appropriate for the Natural Sciences and do they Make a Difference?
Feminist Standpoint Epistemology
Situated Knowledges: the Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
Is Science Multicultural? Challenges, Resources, Opportunities, Uncertainties
Subjects, Power, and Knowledge: Description and Prescription in Feminist Philosophies of Science
Heisenberg's Recognitions: The End of the Scientific World View
Gendered Practice
Life in the XY Corral
The Biopolitics of a Multicultural Field
Foundations for a "New Biology," Proposed in Molecular Cell Biology
The Gendered Nature of Biodiversity Conservation
The Inclusion of Women in Clinical Trials
Science and Identity
In Pursuit of Difference: Scientific Studies of Women and Men
Race and Gender Fallacies: The Paucity of Biological Determinist Explanations of Difference
Gender, Race, and Nation: The Comparative Anatomy of "Hottentot" Women in Europe, 1815-1817
From Molecules to Brains, Normal Science Supports Sexist Beliefs About Diffeences
Girls in Science Education: Of Rice and Fruit Trees
Feminist Restructuring of Science
Toward a Feminist Natural Science: Linking Theory and Practice
Implications of Feminist Critiques of Science for the Teaching of Mathematics and Science
The Cell in Relation: An Ecofeminist Revision of Cell and Molecular Biology
Structuring Feminist Science
Democratizing Biology: Reinventing Biology from a Feminist, Ecological, and Third World Perspective
Creating Sustainable Science
Epilogue: Women's Work is Never Done
Afterword
Bibliography
Index