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The Gender of Science
Janet A. Kourany, University of Notre Dame

ISBN-10: 0133479722
ISBN-13: 9780133479720

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2002
Format: Paper; 464 pp
Published: 05/30/2001

Suggested retail price: $69.00
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For courses in Gender and Science; Philosophy of Science; Science, Technology, and Values; Science Studies; and Gender Studies/Women's Studies.

The only book of its kind, The Gender of Science inspires students to critically reflect on science in order to help them become more socially responsible in their dealings with science.

  • Diversity of scientific fields and aspects of science.

    • Gives students an understanding of the scope of research that has occurred in gender and science. Ex.___

  • Readable, eye-opening character of the essays.

    • Enables and motivates students to be prepared for lively classroom discussions without the need for lengthy explanations from professors. Ex.___

  • Distinguished roster of authors.

    • Familiarizes students with leading thinkers in the field, and provides instant name recognition to prospective faculty users. Ex.___

I. WHO ARE THE SCIENTISTS?

Historically.

Women in the Origins of Modern Science, Londa Schiebinger.Women of Third World Descent in the Sciences, Sandra Harding.
Recently.

Women in Science: Half In Half Out, Vivian Gornick.`How Can a Little Girl Like You Teach a Great Big Class of Men?' the Chairman Said, and Other Adventures of a Woman in Science, Naomi Weisstein.The Anomaly of a Woman in Physics, Evelyn Fox Keller.
Currently.

Women Join the Ranks of Science but Remain Invisible at the Top, Natalie Angier.Creeping Toward Inclusivity in Science, Phyllis Goldberg.

II. WHAT KIND OF ENTERPRISE IS SCIENCE?

Science's Aims, Methods, and Norms of Behavior.

Patriarchy, Scientists, and Nuclear Warriors, Brian Easlea.Culturally Inclusive Chemistry, Catherine Hurt Middlecamp.A World of Difference, Evelyn Fox Keller.Interviewing Women: A Contradiction in Terms, Ann Oakley.
Science's Subject Matter.

Have Only Men Evolved?, Ruth Hubbard.Empathy, Polyandry, and the Myth of the Coy Female, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.The Importance of Feminist Critique for Contemporary Cell Biology, The Biology and Gender Study Group.The Engendering of Archaeology: Refiguring Feminist Science Studies, Alison Wylie.Still Seeking Transformation: Feminist Challenges to Psychology, Sue Wilkinson.
Science's Social Effects.

Androcentric Bias in Clinical Research, Sue Rosser.Man-Made Medicine and Women's Health, Nancy Krieger and Elizabeth Fee.The New Procreative Technologies, Ruth Hubbard.A Question of Genius: Are Men Really Smarter Than Women?, Anne Fausto-Sterling.

III. WHAT KIND OF ENTERPRISE OUGHT SCIENCE TO BE?

Feminist Empiricism.

Subjects, Power, and Knowledge: Description and Prescription in Feminist Philosophies of Science, Helen Longino.Epistemological Communities, Lynn Hankinson Nelson.
Feminist Standpoint Theory.

`Strong Objectivity': A Response to the New Objectivity Question, Sandra Harding.Introduction to Tomorrow's Tomorrow: The Black Woman, Joyce Ladner.
Feminist Postmodernism.

Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective, Donna Haraway.Though This Be Method, Yet There Is Madness in It: Paranoia and Liberal Epistemology, Naomi Scheman.

Despite substantial research during the last two decades in the area of gender and science, no anthology or textbook has introduced students in a comprehensive or systematic way to the subject until now. Integrating contributions from historians and philosophers of science as well as scientists from a wide range of fields, The Gender of Science explores the claim that modern Western science is masculine, and that its masculinity helps to perpetuate a society biased in favor of men. It also explores some of the ways women scientists are currently changing science, and some of the ways science's empiricist house philosophy must be revised to accommodate these changes.

The Gender of Science also

  • provides a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the field of gender and science.
  • includes contributions by the most important historians, philosophers, and scientists in the field—Schiebinger, Harding, Longino, Haraway, Keller, Hubbard, Fausto-Sterling, Rosser, and many others.
  • includes accessible, eye-opening articles on a wide range of sciences, from physics and chemistry to psychology and the social sciences.
  • scrutinizes the aims, methods, and social effects of science as well as its subject matter, and confronts the hard normative questions that result.
  • includes introductions to each section that integrate the different parts of the book, and make clear the contribution of each article to the overall questions of the book.
  • is of interest to a wide range of students—students in philosophy and the sciences as well as those in interdisciplinary programs such as science, technology, and values and gender studies/women's studies.

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