Has feminism changed science?
By: Londa Schiebinger.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Women in science.; Women scientists.; Feminism.
Description: Have feminist perspectives brought any positive changes to scientific knowledge? Schiebinger provides a subtle and nuanced gender analysis of the physical sciences, medicine, archaeology, evolutionary biology, primatology, and developmental biology. She also shows that feminist scientists have developed new theories, asked new questions, and opened new fields in many of these areas.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-245) and index.