Women and Gender in Science and Technology

ISBN-13: 9780415855600 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 1726 str.

Londa Schiebinger

Opis

The question of gender in science and technology is pursued by scholars from different disciplines and perspectives: historians study the lives of women scientists within the context of institutions that for centuries held women at arm s length; sociologists uncover women s access to the means of scientific production; biologists scrutinize how science has studied female and male bodies; cultural critics explore normative understandings of femininity and masculinity; philosophers and historians of science analyse how gender has influenced the content and methods of science and technology. Now, this new four-volume collection from Routledge enables users to make sense of the interlocking pieces of the gender, science, and technology puzzle: the history of women s participation in science and engineering; the structure of research institutions; and the gendering of human knowledge. The volumes bring together important representative publications treating these issues from antiquity to the present, and across cultures."

O autorze

Edited and with a new introduction by Londa Schiebinger, Stanford University, USA