Gendered innovations in science and engineering / edited by Londa Schiebinger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schiebinger, Londa L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in science.

Women in engineering.

Sex discrimination in science.

Physical Description:

xii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2008]

Summary:

The prominent scholars featured in Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering explore how gender analysis can profoundly enhance human knowledge in the areas of science, medicine, and engineering. They provide concrete examples of how taking gender into account has yielded new research results and sparked creativity, opening new avenues for future research.

Several government granting agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health and the European Commission, now require that requests for funding address whether, and in what sense, sex and gender are relevant to the objectives and methodologies of the research proposed, yet few research scientists or engineers know how to do gender analysis. This book begins to rectify the situation by shedding light on the how and the why.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Getting More Women into Science and Engineering-Knowledge Issues / Londa Schiebinger 1

2 When Gender Criticism Becomes Standard Scientific Practice: The Case of Sex Determination Genetics / Sarah S. Richardson 22

3 One Thing Leads to Another: Gendering Research in Archaeology / Margaret W. Conkey 43

4 Sex Matters: Letting Skeletons Tell the Story / Lori D. Hager 65

5 Change around the Edges: Gender Analysis, Feminist Methods, and Sciences of Terrestrial Environments / Louise Fortmann, Heidi Ballard, Louise Sperling 79

6 Feminist Perspectives on Geographic Information Systems: Implications for Geographic Research / Mei-Po Kwan 97

7 Stem Cells, Women, and the New Gender and Science / Charis Thompson 109

8 If You Meet the Expectations of Women, You Exceed the Expectations of Men: How Volvo Designed a Car for Women Customers and Made World Headlines / Tatiana Butovitsch Temm 131

9 Are Photons Gendered? Women in Physics and Astronomy / C. Megan Urry 150

10 "A Very Scholarly Intervention": Recruiting Women Faculty in Science and Engineering / Danielle LaVaque-Manty, Abigail J. Stewart 165

11 Building Two-Way Streets to Implement Policies that Work for Gender and Science / Sue V. Rosser 182

12 Projects of the National Academies on Women in Science and Engineering / France A. Cordova 198.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-234) and index.

ISBN:

9780804758147

080475814X

9780804758154

0804758158

OCLC:

156785104