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1 online resource (636 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Women, Science, and Technology; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Feminism, Science and Technology-Why It Still Matters; Section 1. From Margins to Center: Educating Women for Scientific Careers; 1. Science Faculty's Subtle Gender Biases Favor Male Students; 2. Snow Brown and the Seven Detergents: A Metanarrative on Science and the Scientific Method; 3. State of Knowledge about the Workforce Participation, Equity, and Inclusion of Women in Academic Science and Engineering |
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4. Walking a Tightrope: The Feminist Life of a Drosophila Biologist5. When Computers Were Women; 6. The Intersection of Gender, Race and Cultural Boundaries, or Why Is Computer Science in Malaysia Dominated by Women?; 7. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Achieving Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, and Engineering; 8. The Gender Gap in Patents; Section 2. Feminist Approaches in/to Science and Technology; 9. Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals; 10. Socially Camouflaged Technologies: The Case of the Electromechanical Vibrator |
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11. The Need to Bleed? A Feminist Technology Assessment of Menstrual-Suppressing Birth Control Pills12. Hardwired for Sexism? Approaches to Sex/Gender in Neuroscience; 13. Making Males Aggressive and Females Coy: Gender across the Animal-Human Boundary; 14. Asking Different Questions: Feminist Practices for the Natural Sciences; 15. "Keep Life Simple": Body/Technology Relationships in Racialized Global Contexts; Section 3. Technologies of Sex, Gender, and Difference; 16. Science, Power, Gender: How DNA Became the Book of Life; 17. The Bare Bones of Sex: Part 1-Sex and Gender |
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18. Constructing Gender from the Inside Out: Sex-Selection Practices in the United States19. Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies: A New Reproductive Dystopia?; 20. Sexing the X: How the X Became the "Female Chromosome"; Section 4. Thinking Theoretically; 21. Rethinking Cyberfeminism(s): Race, Gender, and Embodiment; 22. Gender and Technology; 23. Queering Feminist Technology Studies; 24. Feminist Heterosexual Imaginaries of Reproduction: Lesbian Conception in Feminist Studies of Reproductive Technologies |
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25. From Reproductive Work to Regenerative Labor: The Female Body and the Stem Cell Industries26. Beyond Postcolonial Theory: Two Undertheorized Perspectives on Science and Technology; Section 5. Theoretical Horizons in Feminist Technoscience Studies; 27. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective; 28. Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter; 29. Animal Performances: An Exploration of Intersections between Feminist Science Studies and Studies of Human/Animal Relationships |
| Summary |
Women, Science, and Technology is an ideal reader for courses in feminist science studies. This third edition fully updates its predecessor with a new introduction and twenty-eight new readings that explore social constructions mediated by technologies, expand the scope of feminist technoscience studies, and move beyond the nature/culture paradigm |
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30. Sex Genes: A Critical Sociomaterial Approach to the Politics and Molecular Genetics of Sex Determination |
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Print version record |
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Feminism and science.
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Women in science.
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Women in technology.
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Feminism and science
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Women in science
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Women in technology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Barbercheck, Mary
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Cookmeyer, Donna
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Ozturk, Hatice
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Wayne, Marta
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| ISBN |
9781135055424 |
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1135055424 |
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