The Gender of Science

by Kourany, Janet A.

• ISBN13: 9780133479720
• ISBN10: 0133479722
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-30
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

The only book of its kind,The Gender of Scienceinspires 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(2)
PART I Who Are the Scientists?	3	(84)
Historically
Women in the Origins of Modern Science	8	(26)
Londa Schiebinger
Women of Third World Descent in the Sciences	34	(5)
Sandra Harding
Recently
Women in Science: Half In, Half Out	39	(21)
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	60	(6)
Naomi Weisstein
The Anomaly of a Woman in Physics	66	(9)
Evelyn Fox Keller
Currently
Women Join the Ranks of Science but Remain Invisible at the Top	75	(4)
Natalie Angier
Creeping Toward Inclusivity in Science	79	(8)
Phyllis Goldberg
PART II What Kind of Enterprise Is Science?	87	(216)
Science's Aims, Methods, and Norms of Behavior
Patriarchy, Scientists, and Nuclear Warriors	98	(14)
Brain Easlea
Culturally Inclusive Chemistry	112	(13)
Catherine Hurt Middlecamp
A World of Difference	125	(11)
Evelyn Fox Keller
Interviewing Women: A Contradiction in Terms	136	(17)
Ann Oakley
Science's Subject Matter
Have Only Men Evolved?	153	(18)
Ruth Hubbard
Empathy, Polyandry, and the Myth of the Coy Female	171	(21)
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
The Importance of Feminist Critique for Contemporary Cell Biology The Biology and Gender Study Group	192	(11)
Athena Beldecos
Sarah Bailey
Scott Gilbert
Karen Hicks Lori Kenschaft
Nancy Niemczyk
Rebecca Rosenberg Stephanie Schaertel
Andrew Wedel
The Engendering of Archaeology: Refiguring Feminist Science Studies	203	(15)
Alison Wylie
Still Seeking Transformation: Feminist Challenges to Psychology	218	(10)
Sue Wilkinson
Science's Social Effects
Androcentric Bias in Clinical Research	228	(9)
Sue Rosser
Man-Made Medicine and Women's Health: The Biopolitics of Sex/Gender and Race/Ethnicity	237	(13)
Nancy Krieger
Elizabeth Fee
The New Procreative Technologies	250	(17)
Ruth Hubbard
A Question of Genius: Are Men Really Smarter than Women?	267	(36)
Anne Fausto-Sterling
PART III What Kind of Enterprise Ought Science to Be?	303
Feminist Empiricism
Subjects, Power, and Knowledge: Description and Prescription in Feminist Philosophies of Science	310
Helen E. Longino
Epistemological Communities	322
Lynn Hankinson Nelson
Feminist Standpoint Theory
``Strong Objectivity'': A Response to the New Objectivity Question	340
Sandra Harding
Introduction to Tomorrow's Tomorrow: The Black Woman	353
Joyce A. Ladner
Feminist Postmodernism
Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective	361
Donna Haraway
Though This Be Method, Yet There Is Madness in It: Paranoia and Liberal Epistemology	371
Naomi Scheman

Excerpts

During the last two decades there has been a near avalanche of work in the area of gender and science--scores of books and collections of essays by historians and philosophers of science as well as scientists themselves, special issues of journals and newsletters, lectures, symposia, conferences, journal articles, bibliographies, and of course media exposes and analyses. But there have been few if any anthologies or textbooks designed specifically to structure courses on gender and science so as to introduce students to the area in a clear and systematic way, though there has been much interest in teaching such courses (to judge from the syllabi and requests for syllabi informally circulating around the country). This anthology is intended to rectify the situation. In it I have included articles that are accessible, eye-opening, and challenging to a wide range of students--students of philosophy, the sciences, gender studies/women's studies, as well as students in interdisciplinary science studies programs such as science, technology, and values. I have organized the articles so as to bring out very clearly the interrelations among them and their relevance to the students. And I have tested in the classroom over a number of years now both the anthology's format and its articles, with great success.Work on this anthology has been made much easier as a result of the efforts of a number of people. Sue Rosser of the University of South Carolina, Helen Longino of the University of Minnesota, James Maffie of Colorado State University, and especially Alison Wylie of Washington University gave me many useful suggestions and much encouragement. Students in my Gender and Science classes over the years have been unfailingly helpful in pruning out the lemons (both readings and topics) of each new syllabus, and their suggestions for organizing or reorganizing their coursework were always well considered. I owe them a special debt of gratitude both for their generous feedback and for the sheer enjoyment of our interactions. Prentice Hall philosophy editor Ross Miller and production editor Joanne Riker have been wonderfully resourceful and accommodating on a whole slew of thorny issues, and wonderfully pleasant to work with as well. Notre Dame history and philosophy of science graduate student Elizabeth Hayes did a stellar and truly memorable job trying to extract every last error from the proofs. My partner and fellow philosopher Jim Sterba as usual provided the necessary support, humor, love, and distractions to see the project through. Finally, our daughter Sonya, now a twenty-year-old psychology major, has helped me envision a more hopeful future for science. To her, energetic and absorbed and socially concerned scientist-to-be, I dedicate this book. J. A. K.