Women, Science, and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies

By Donna Giesman, Mary Barbercheck, Mary Wyer

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415521106
• ISBN13: 9780415521109
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 606 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A zippy and insightful introduction to issues of women in science

A book about women in science that describes how vibrators were marketed in the 1920s? Why not? This "reader" includes short original documents, with discussion about how they fit into a wider view of women's studies. One of my favorites (and original to the book) is the odd coincidence of ads in publications like "Science" and "Nature" have the text "easy" and "cheap" if they show a woman in the ad photo. The texts in this book served as the basis for a lively reading group at my university and I highly recommend it. Really, we laughed, we argued and we left different people.