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gender beliefs from antiquity to the present
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rosser, Sue V. > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- WER 22 2008
- Thesaurus
- bètawetenschappen, technologie, gender, theorieën, biologie, psychologie, man vrouw verschillen, natuur cultuur debat, universiteiten, discriminatie, feminisme, wetenschapskritiek, antieke oudheid, middeleeuwen, renaissance, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- This volume explores the interactions between gender and scientific research. It examines the ways scientists have researched gender throughout history, the influence of those results on society's perceptions of women, and the impact of those findings on the scientific community and on women, women scientists, and women's rights movements., The book is divided into two major sections, chronological and thematic. The articles in the chronological section highlight changes in time through historical eras and are international in scope. The format alternates between sociohistoric accounts and biographical essays listing and describing influential women in the field of science. The thematic section is divided into six subcategories and contains articles on the individual disciplines of science, aspects of human behavior, institutions, discrimination, and philosophical and theoretical critiques concerning women and science. Examples of articles in this section: the brain, mental illness, personality, hormones, menopause, homosexuality, race, nature/nurture, education, motherhood, religion, universities, professional societies, women scientists as leaders, and Nobel laureates. Other examples include: Feminist philosophy of science: Biologists who study gender/feminism: Historians of science who focus on feminism: Primatologists who focus on females/gender: Ecofeminism: Race, postcolonial gender, and science: Feminist science studies: Women's health movement: and Science fiction.
science, gender, and visual culture
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Shteir, Ann B. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Lightman, Bernard > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Marchessault, Janine
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2006
- Thesaurus
- bètawetenschappen, biologie, gender, iconografie, lichamen, man vrouw verschillen, vrouwbeelden
- Description
- A collection of fifteen original essays analyzing gender in the imagery of science.The book focuses on visual and figural images as a way to study the workings of gender in science, and on gender as a way to examine how images in science contain and convey meaning. Roughly chronological in organization, part one focuses on mythological and metaphorical depictions of gender in early frontispieces, while part two looks at realistic images such as photos, illustrations, and exhibits from the nineteenth century. Part three highlights the workings of cultural norms of gender in twentieth-century science, illustrated through discussions of photos, television shows, advertising, and digital imagery. A common theme in the book is an emphasis on questions of representation and interpretive problems such as agency and identity. The volume explores a host of themes, including the gendered cultures of science and medicine, technologies of display, and the role of sexualities and sexual difference in the construction of figural vocabularies of science.
summarizing more than a century of scientific research
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ellis, Lee
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- WER 22 2008 - C
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenstudies, man vrouw verschillen, bètawetenschappen, sociale wetenschappen, arbeid, gender, gezondheid, biologie
- Description
- This volume is the first to aim at summarizing all of the scientific literature published so far regarding male-female differences and similarities, not only in behavior, but also in basic biology, physiology, health, perceptions, emotions, and attitudes. Results from over 18,000 studies have been condensed into more than 1,900 tables, with each table pertaining to a specific possible sex difference. Even research pertaining to how men and women are perceived (stereotyped) as being different is covered. Throughout this book's eleven years in preparation, no exclusions were made in terms of subject areas, cultures, time periods, or even species. The book is accompanied by a CD containing all 18,000+ references cited in the book.
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