Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine

By: Angela N. H. Creager (Editor), Elizabeth Lunbeck (Editor), Londa Schiebinger (Editor)

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What useful changes has feminism brought to science? Feminists have enjoyed success in their efforts to open many fields to women as participants. But the effects of feminism have not been restricted to altering employment and professional opportunities for women. The essays in this volume explore how feminist theory has had a direct impact on research in the biological and social sciences, in medicine, and in technology, often providing the impetus for fundamentally changing the theoretical underpinnings and practices of such research. In archaeology, evidence of women's hunting activities suggested by spears found in women's graves is no longer dismissed; computer scientists have used feminist epistemologies for rethinking the human-interface problems of our growing reliance on computers. Attention to women's movements often tends to reinforce a presumption that feminism changes institutions through critique-from-without. This volume reveals the potent but not always visible transformations feminism has brought to science, technology, and medicine from within.

Contributors:
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Linda Marie Fedigan
Scott Gilbert
Evelynn M. Hammonds
Evelyn Fox Keller
Pamela E. Mack
Michael S. Mahoney
Emily Martin
Ruth Oldenziel
Nelly Oudshoorn
Carroll Pursell
Karen Rader
Alison Wylie

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Feminism & Feminist Theory Science Science in General Impact of Science & Technology on Society Family & Health Popular Medicine & Health Women's Health Medicine Engineering & Technology

Philosophy of Science Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Sociology & Anthropology

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Science
Doing Social Science as a Feminist: The Engendering of Archeology	p. 23
The Paradox of Feminist Primatology: The Goddess's Discipline?	p. 46
Revisiting Women, Gender, and Feminism in Developmental Biology	p. 73
Making a Difference: Feminist Movement and Feminist Critiques of Science	p. 98
Technology
Feminism and the Rethinking of the History of Technology	p. 113
Man the Maker, Woman the Consumer: The Consumption Junction Revisited	p. 128
What Difference Has Feminism Made to Engineering in the Twentieth Century?	p. 149
Boy's Toys and Women's Work: Feminism Engages Software	p. 169
Medicine, Technology, and Gender in the History of Prenatal Diagnosis	p. 186
Medicine
On Bodies, Technologies, and Feminisms	p. 199
Rationality, Feminism, and Mind	p. 214
Gendering the Epidemic: Feminism and the Epidemic of HIV/AIDS in the United States, 1981 - 1999	p. 230
Contributors	p. 245
Index	p. 249
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