The Gender And Science Reader

The Gender and Science Reader brings together key articles in a comprehensive investigations of the nature and practice of science.

The Gender and Science Reader brings together key articles in a comprehensive investigations of the nature and practice of science.

The only book of its kind, The Gender of Science inspires readers to critically reflect on science in order to help them become more socially responsible in their dealings with science. Provides a diversity of scientific fields and aspects of science. Ideal for anyone interested in learning about gender and science, the philosophy of science, science, technology, and values, and in gender studies/women's studies.

Women, Science, and Technology is an ideal reader for courses in feminist science studies. This third edition fully updates its predecessor with a new introduction and twenty-eight new readings that explore social constructions mediated by technologies, expand the scope of feminist technoscience studies, and move beyond the nature/culture paradigm.

A collection of fifteen original essays analyzing gender in the imagery of science.

McGaw; Joy Parr, Simon Fraser University.

From Frankenstein to futuristic feminist utopias, Decoding Gender in Science Fiction examines the ways science fiction writers have incorporated, explored, and revised conventional notions of sexual difference. Attebery traces a fascinating history of men's and women's writing that covertly or overtly investigates conceptions of gender, suggesting new perspectives on the genre.

This collection of articles from Gender and Development considers technologies of many kinds, including those intended to save womens labour, to enable them to control their fertility and to learn and communicate using computer technology.