Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology

Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology
Author: Maureen McNeil
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2008-01-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134065426

Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology challenges the assumption that science is simply what scientists do, say, or write: it shows the multiple and dispersed makings of science and technology in everyday life and popular culture. This first major guide and review of the new field of feminist cultural studies of science and technology provides readers with an accessible introduction to its theories and methods. Documenting and analyzing the recent explosion of research which has appeared under the rubric of 'cultural studies of science and technology' it examines the distinctive features of the 'cultural turn' in science studies and traces the contribution feminist scholarship has made to this development. Interrogating the theoretical and methodological features it evaluates the significance of this distinctive body of research in the context of concern about public attitudes to science and contentious debates about public understanding of and engagement with science.

Gender in Science and Technology

Gender in Science and Technology
Author: Waltraud Ernst
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2014-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3839424348

What role does gender play in scientific research and the development of technologies? This book provides methodological expertise, research experiences and empirical findings in the dynamic field of Science and Technology Studies. The authors, coming from computer science, social sciences, or cultural studies of science, discuss how to ask questions about gender and give examples for the application in interdisciplinary research, development and teaching. Topics range from the design of information and communication technologies, epistemologies of biology and chemistry to teaching mathematics and professional processes in engineering. Contributions by Anne Balsamo, Wendy Faulkner, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Barbara Orland, Els Rommes, and others.

Cosmodolphins

Cosmodolphins
Author: Mette Bryld
Publisher: Zed Books
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2000-02
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

Applying thinking on gender and the environment to research on science and technology, this work explores postcolonical relationships with the wild using the USA and Russia as examples. The authors analyze contemporary categorizations of human self versus wild other through three 20th-century icons which illustrate ambivalent ideas about self and other - spaceships, horoscopes and dolphins. They interview astrologers, wilderness guides, dolphin trainers and academic staff of space agencies from Russia and the US, and look at representations of the space race in film and science fiction in both cultures as well as in New Age and other texts on dolphins, astrology and space travel. We see how a particular icon of the wild - the dolphin - is elevated to mythological status, and how a secularized society looks for spiritual fulfilment in the beyond - astrology - and in its own technological advances - space travel.

Women, Science, and Technology

Women, Science, and Technology
Author: Mary Wyer
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2001
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780415926065

This reader provides an introduction to the gendering of science and the impact women are making in laboratories around the world. The republished essays included in this collection are both personal tales from women scientists and essays on the nature of science itself, covering such controversial issues like the under-representation of women in science, reproductive technology, sociobiology, evolutionary theory, and the notion of objective science.

Bits of Life

Bits of Life
Author: Anneke Smelik
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2008-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

This collection is constructed as an ongoing dialogue among a group of scholars. It engages key questions about new technologies of bio-engineering, reproduction, imaging, communication, and the redefinition of life. The contributors pursue a technophilic, yet critical, path while articulating appraised ethical standards.

TechnoFeminism

TechnoFeminism
Author: Judy Wajcman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2013-05-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0745638058

This timely and engaging book argues that technoscientific advances are radically transforming the woman-machine relationship. However, it is feminist politics rather than the technologies themselves that make the difference. TechnoFeminism fuses the visionary insights of cyberfeminism with a materialist analysis of the sexual politics of technology.

Is Science Multicultural?

Is Science Multicultural?
Author: Sandra Harding
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1998-02-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780253211569

Explores what the last few decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. This book proposes new directions for thinking about objectivity, method, and reflexivity in light of the new understandings developed in the post-World War II world

Off-centre

Off-centre
Author: Sarah Franklin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780044456667

This indispensible collection brings together feminist theory and cultural studies, looking at issues such as pop culture and the media, science and technology, and Thatcherism and the Enterprise Culture.

Feminist Theory Out of Science

Feminist Theory Out of Science
Author: Sophia Roosth
Publisher: Differences: A Journal of Femi
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780822367741

An approach to critical thinking that inhabits, elaborates, and feeds on scientific theory, holding feminist theory accountable to science and vice versa

Sciences from Below

Sciences from Below
Author: Sandra Harding
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2008-06-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0822381184

In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around the world. Harding illuminates the idea of multiple modernities as well as the major contributions of post-Kuhnian Western, feminist, and postcolonial science studies. She explains how these schools of thought can help those seeking to implement progressive social projects refine their thinking to overcome limiting ideas about what modernity and modernization are, the objectivity of scientific knowledge, patriarchy, and Eurocentricity. She also reveals how ideas about gender and colonialism frame the conventional contrast between modernity and tradition. As she has done before, Harding points the way forward in Sciences from Below. Describing the work of the post-Kuhnian science studies scholars Bruno Latour, Ulrich Beck, and the team of Michael Gibbons, Helga Nowtony, and Peter Scott, Harding reveals how, from different perspectives, they provide useful resources for rethinking the modernity versus tradition binary and its effects on the production of scientific knowledge. Yet, for the most part, they do not take feminist or postcolonial critiques into account. As Harding demonstrates, feminist science studies and postcolonial science studies have vital contributions to make; they bring to light not only the male supremacist investments in the Western conception of modernity and the historical and epistemological bases of Western science but also the empirical knowledge traditions of the global South. Sciences from Below is a clear and compelling argument that modernity studies and post-Kuhnian, feminist, and postcolonial sciences studies each have something important, and necessary, to offer to those formulating socially progressive scientific research and policy.