ABSTRACT
While feminists have made bold and enduring strides into science in the recent past, the focus of a large majority of feminist projects in the sciences have tended to be on the life and social sciences, rather than the physical sciences or engineering. This chapter offers an agenda for developing curricula linking women’s studies and the physical sciences and engineering. These suggestions aim to foster constructive bridges that will bring together students, faculty, and subject matter from women’s studies and the physical sciences and engineering. The chapter demonstrates one way in which women’s studies curricula can address and collaboratively work toward changing the situation for women in the physical sciences and engineering. Several courses in the physical sciences and engineering included topics pertaining to social issues or applications; however, these courses were almost always designed for nonmajors, and were rarely available for credit within the major.
