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Third edition. |
| Description |
xxxiv, 599 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : feminism, science and technology : why it still matters -- From margins to center : educating women for scientific careers -- Feminist approaches in/to science and technology -- Technologies of sex, gender, and difference -- Thinking theoretically -- Theoretical horizons in feminist technoscience studies. |
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Rethinking cyberfeminism(s): Race, gender, and embodiment. -- Gender and technology. -- Queering feminist technology studies. -- Feminist heterosexual imaginaries of reproduction: Lesbian conception in feminist studies of reproductive technologies. -- From reproductive work to regenerative labor: The female body and the stem cell industries. -- Beyond postcolonial theory: Two undertheorized perspectives on science and technology. -- Theoretical Horizons in Feminist Technoscience Studies -- Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. -- Posthumanist performativity: Toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter. -- Animal performances: An exploration of intersections between feminist science studies and studies of human/animal relationships. -- ex genes: A critical sociomaterial approach to the politics and molecular genetics of sex determination. -- Open forum imaginary prohibitions: Some preliminary remarks on the founding gestures of the "new materialism." -- From science and technology to feminist technoscience. -- Eco/feminism and rewriting the ending of feminism: From the Chipko movement to Clayoquot Sound. |
| Summary |
"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."--Pub. desc. |
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Women in science.
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Women in technology.
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Feminism and science.
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Feminism and science. (OCoLC)fst00922745
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Women in science. (OCoLC)fst01177977
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Women in technology. (OCoLC)fst01177989
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| Added Author |
Wyer, Mary, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780415521093 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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0415521092 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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9780415521109 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0415521106 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780203427415 (ebook) |
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1135055424 (electronic bk.) |
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9781135055424 (electronic bk.) |
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