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Women, science, and technology: a reader in feminist science studies
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Introduction: Science and Feminism
Sect. 1. High Hopes, Broken Promises, and Persistence: Educating Women for Scientific Careers
Anomaly of a Woman in Physics / Evelyn Fox Keller
Never Meant to Survive, A Black Woman's Journey: An Interview with Evelynn Hammonds / Aimee Sands
Gender Constructs and Career Commitment: The Influence of Peer Culture on Women in College / Margaret A. Eisenhart and Dorothy C. Holland
Snow Brown and the Seven Detergents: A Metanarrative on Science and the Scientific Method / Banu Subramaniam
Shoulders of Giants / Dara Horn
Nepotism and Sexism in Peer-Review / Christine Wenneras and Agnes Wold
Nine Decades, Nine Women, Ten Nobel Prizes: Gender Politics at the Apex of Science / Hilary Rose
Careers of Men and Women Scientists: Gender Differences in Career Attainments / Harriet Zuckerman
Sect. 2. Science, Sex, and Stereotypes: Cultural Images of Science and Scientists
Sex, Science, and Education / Janice Law Trecker
Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals / Carol Cohn
Mixed Messages: Men and Women in Advertisements in Science / Mary Barbercheck
Gender and Science: An Update / Evelyn Fox Keller
Sect. 3. Constructing Gender, Constructing Science: How Ideas about Women and Men Shape Science and Technology
Science, Facts, and Feminism / Ruth Hubbard
Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants / Suzanne J. Kessler
Sociobiology, Biological Determinism, and Human Behavior / Ruth Bleier
Built Environment: Women's Place, Gendered Space / Judy Wajcman
Sect. 4. New Science, New Knowledge: Bringing Feminist Perspectives into Science and Technology Studies
Can There Be a Feminist Science? / Helen E. Longino
Socially Camouflaged Technologies: The Case of the Electromechanical Vibrator / Rachel Maines
Is Primatology a Feminist Science? / Linda Marie Fedigan
Naked Sex in Exile: On the Paradox of the "Sex Question" in Feminism and in Science / Cynthia Kraus
Sect. 5. Reproducible Insights: Women Creating Knowledge, Social Policy, and Change
Premenstrual Syndrome, Work Discipline, and Anger / Emily Martin
Engendering Environmental Thinking: A Feminist Analysis of the Present Crisis / Ruth Perry
Between Fathers and Fetuses: The Social Construction of Male Reproduction and the Politics of Fetal Harm / Cynthia R. Daniels
Feminist AI Projects and Cyberfutures / Alison Adam.
From the Book - 2nd ed.
General Introduction. Science, Technology, and Feminism
Sect. I. Educating Women for Scientific Careers
Education: Out of the Frying Pan ...
1. Anomaly of a Woman in Physics / Evelyn Fox Keller
2. Never Meant to Survive, a Black Woman's Journey: An Interview with Evelynn Hammonds / Aimee Sands
3. Snow Brown and the Seven Detergents: A Metanarrative on Science and the Scientific Method / Banu Subramaniam
4. Shoulders of Giants / Dara Horn
Careers: ... And into the Fire
5. Nepotism and Sexism in Peer-Review / Christine Wenneras and Agnes Wold
6. Nine Decades, Nine Women, Ten Nobel Prizes: Gender Politics at the Apex of Science / Hilary Rose
7. Asian Americans and the Gender Gap in Science and Technology / Jaekyung Lee
8. Walking a Tightrope: The Feminist Life of a Drosophila Biologist / Marta Wayne
Sect. II. Stereotypes, Rationality, and Masculinity in Science and Engineering
9. Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals / Carol Cohn
10. Science, Sex, and Stereotypical Images in Scientific Advertising / Mary Barbercheck
11. Aliens Have Landed! Reflections on the Rhetoric of Biological Invasions / Banu Subramaniam
12. Power and the Pleasure? A Research Agenda for "Making Gender Stick" to Engineers / Wendy Faulkner
Sect. III. Technologies Born of Difference: How Ideas about Women and Men Shape Science and Technology
13. Medical Fit for Contraceptives / Andrea Tone
14. Sociobiology, Biological Determinism, and Human Behavior / Ruth Bleier
15. Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants / Suzanne Kessler
16. Bare Bones of Sex: Sex and Gender / Anne Fausto-Sterling
Sect. IV. Next Generation: Bringing Feminist Perspectives into Science and Technology Studies
17. Gender and Science: An Update / Evelyn Fox Keller
18. Paradox of Feminist Primatology / Linda Marie Fedigan
19. Socially Camouflaged Technologies: The Case of the Electromechanical Vibrator / Rachel Maines
20. On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and New Imaging Technologies / Anne Balsamo
Sect. V. Reproducible Insights: Women Creating Knowledge, Social Policy, and Change (with Elizabeth Adams and Jennifer Schneider)
21. Engendering Environmental Thinking: A Feminist Analysis of the Present Crisis / Ruth Perry
22. Fulfilling Technology's Promise: Enforcing the Rights of Women Caught in the Global High-Tech Underclass / Shruti Rana
23. Premenstrual Syndrome, Work Discipline, and Anger / Emily Martin
24. Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy Arrangements, and the Politics of Motherhood / Laura Woliver.
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