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Article: Women, Science and Technology: A Reader in Ferminist Science Studies.(For Your Bookshelf)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- On Campus with Women
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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Women,Science and Technology:A Reader in Ferminist Science Studies Mary Wyer,Mary Barbercheck,Donna Giesman, Hatice Orun Ozturk,and Marta Wayne, Eds (Routeledge, 2008,$49.95 paperback).
Does science have a gender bias? And if so, what are its implications? Such questions may not echo through most laboratories, but they trouble the editors of Women, Science, and Technology, who raise them to higher levels of consideration with their newly reissued anthology. With nuance and skill, the editors argue not only that scientific cultures have excluded women while privileging men, but that science itself has developed around an androcentric model that willingly or ...