Inventing women : science, technology, and gender / edited by Gill Kirkup and Laurie Smith Keller.

Date:
[1992], ©1992
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Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Cambridge, MA, USA : Blackwell Publishers, [1992], ©1992.

Physical description

vi, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm

Notes

"[Published] in association with the Open University."

Contents

Discovering and doing : science and technology, an introduction / Laurie Smith Keller -- Women's voices/men's voices : technology as language / Margaret Lowe Benston -- How gender matters, or, why it's so hard for us to count past two / Evelyn Fox Keller -- How the women's movement benefits science : two views / Sandra Harding -- In pursuit of difference : scientific studies of women and men / Lynda Birke -- The changing role of women in models of human evolution / Linda Marie Fedigan -- Women and medicalization : a new perspective / Catherine Kohler Riessman -- Detecting genetic diseases : prenatal screening and its problems / Lynda Birke, Susan Himmelweit and Gail Vines -- Hertha Ayrton : a scientist of spirit / Joan Mason -- Girls in science education : of rice and fruit trees / Liz Whitelegg.
A feeling for the organism : Fox Keller's life of Barbara McClintock / Gill Kirkup and Laurie Smith Keller -- Technology, production and power / Cynthia Cockburn -- The secretary chant / Marge Piercy -- 'A brother in arms, a sister in peace' : contemporary issues of gender and military technology / Julie Wheelwright -- Science, technology and development : the impact on the status of women / Radha Chakravarthy -- Domestic technology : labour-saving or enslaving? / Judy Wajcman -- Cold hearths and barren slopes : the woodfuel crisis in the Third World / Bina Agarwal -- Dry / Jean Binta Breeze -- The social construction of computers : hammers or harpsichords? / Gill Kirkup -- Eco-feminism / Cat Cox -- Sultana's dream / Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-326) and index.

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  • 0745609775
  • 0745609783