| Description |
vii, 289 pages ; 22 cm |
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Oxford readings in feminism |
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Oxford readings in feminism.
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| Contents |
Women's perspective as a radical critique of sociology / Dorothy E. Smith -- Feminism and science / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Reason, science and the domination of matter / Genevieve Lloyd -- Animal sociology and a natural economy of the body politic, part II: the past is a contested zone / Donna Haraway -- Body, bias, and behaviour: a comparative analysis of reasoning in two areas of biological science / Helen E. Longino and Ruth Doell -- Pre-theoretical assumptions in evolutionary explanations of female sexuality / Elisabeth A. Lloyd -- The Egg and the sperm: how science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles / Emily Martin -- Race and gender: the role of analogy in science / Nancy Leys Stepan -- Why mammals are called mammals: gender politics in eighteenth-century natural history / Londa Schiebinger -- Language and ideology in evolutionary theory: reading cultural norms into natural law / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Nuclear language and how we learned to pat the |
| Summary |
Over the past fifteen years, a new dimension to the analysis of science has emerged. Feminist theory, combined with the insights of recent developments in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, has raised a number of new and important questions about the content, practice, and traditional goals of science. Feminists have pointed to a bias in the choice and definition of problems with which scientist have concerned themselves, and in the actual design and interpretation of experiments, and have argued that modern science evolved out of a conceptual structuring of the world that incorporated particular and historically specific ideologies of gender. The seventeen articles in this outstanding volume reflect the diversity and strengths of feminist contributions to current thinking about science |
| Analysis |
Science Sociology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-284) and index |
| Subject |
Feminist theory.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Social aspects.
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Women in science.
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Feminism.
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Science.
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Sociology.
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| Author |
Keller, Evelyn Fox, 1936-
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Longino, Helen E.
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| LC no. |
95045299 |
| ISBN |
0198751451 (paper : alk. paper) |
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019875146X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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