Has Feminism Changed Science ? - Hardcover

Schiebinger, Londa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674381130 ISBN 13: 9780674381131

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Do women do science differently? This is a history of women in science and a frank assessment of the role of gender in shaping scientific knowledge. Science is both a profession and a body of knowledge, and Londa Schiebinger looks at how women have fared and performed in both instances. Shoe first considers the lives of women scientists, past and present. Schiebinger debunks the myth that women scientists - because they are women - are somehow more holistic and integrative and create more cooperative scientific communities. However, have feminist perspectives brought any positive change to scientific knowledge? Schiebinger provides a nuanced gender analysis of the physical sciences, medicine, archaeology, evolutionary biology, primatology, and developmental biology. She also shows that feminist scientists have developed new theories, asked new questions, and opened new fields in many of these areas.

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Review:

In the past 30 years, feminists have produced major critiques of science...there have also been several modern histories of women scientists, new biographies, and numerous research studies of their recent career developments. Schiebinger's latest book is a summary to date of this body of knowledge...a very rich area of critical analysis.--Judith Lorber "Ideology and Cultural Production "

About the Author:

Londa Schiebinger is John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0674381130
• ISBN 13: 9780674381131
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 260