(Ebook) Women, science, and technology: a reader in feminist science studies by Mary Wyer, Mary Barbercheck, Donna Geisman, Hatice Örün Öztürk, Marta Wayne (editors) ISBN 9780203011782, 9780415926065, 9780415926072, 0203011783, 0415926068, 0415926076

(Ebook) Women, science, and technology: a reader in feminist science studies by Mary Wyer, Mary Barbercheck, Donna Geisman, Hatice Örün Öztürk, Marta Wayne (editors) ISBN 9780203011782, 9780415926065, 9780415926072, 0203011783, 0415926068, 0415926076

This reader provides an introduction to the gendering of science and the impact women are making in laboratories around the world. The republished essays included in this collection are both personal tales from women scientists and essays on the nature of science itself, covering such controversial issues like the under-representation of women in science, reproductive technology, sociobiology, evolutionary theory, and the notion of objective science.• 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 Wennerás 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• 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• 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• 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• 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