Feminism and science
By: edited by Evelyn Fox Keller and Helen E. Longino.
Contributors: Keller, Evelyn Fox, 1936-; Longino, Helen E.
Series: Oxford readings in feminism
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Science -- Social aspects; Science -- Philosophy; Feminist theory; Women in science
Other titles: Feminism & science
Description: Over the past fifteen years, a new dimension to the analysis of science has emerged. Feminist theory, combined with the insights of recent developments in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, has raised a number of new and important questions about the content, practice, and traditional goals of science.

Feminists have pointed to a bias in the choice and definition of problems with which scientist have concerned themselves, and in the actual design and interpretation of experiments, and have argued that modern science evolved out of a conceptual structuring of the world that incorporated particular and historically specific ideologies of gender. The seventeen articles in this outstanding volume reflect the diversity and strengths of feminist contributions to current thinking about science.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-284) and index.